Hot Collaboration
The debut romance novel from Tennessee writer Katie Holt, Not in My Book, is a steamy slow burn in which the two main characters write a romance novel together.
Fiction
Infinite Little Island
In Playworld, novelist Adam Ross depicts a Manhattan teenager who ricochets between acting for television and bumbling in reality. Ross will discuss Playworld with Mayor Freddie O’Connell at Parnassus Books in Nashville on January 6.
Punching Hitler in the Mouth
“I am Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Novis. … I am the candidate most likely to violate the Official Secrets Act. And I will be convicted of treason when I do.” Lizzie is half of the talented brother/sister team at the center of The Bletchley Riddle, a World War II novel for middle-grade readers by an equally talented team: award-winning writers Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin.
On the Brink
In The Best That You Can Do, a new story collection, Amina Gautier depicts women in the process of growing up and moving on. Gautier, a professor at the University of Miami, is a former fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
Cracks in the Foundation
Phyllis Gobbell’s novel Prodigal explores the impact of a son’s return to his family in the wake of his grandmother’s sudden death. Phyllis Gobbell will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on November 21.
Sinister Stories
Smoking Guns, an anthology from the East Tennessee chapter of Sisters in Crime, offers a dozen “tales of crime and mystery” that take readers into the dark corners of humanity.
