11th September 2018

Featured books: Escaping Wars and Waves, £19.99; Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous, £8.99 & The Inking Woman, £19.99

Escaping Wars and Waves author Olivier Kugler was interviewed by The Herald here, while The Inking Woman author Nicola Streeten appeared on BBC Four's Front Row here.

Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous has been longlisted for the Bangalore Literary Festival Book Prize 2018.

Finally, Shiny New Books has run a publisher spotlight on Myriad available here.

Featured books: Severance, £10.99; Our Life in the Forest, £10.99; The Patch, £10.99 & The Death of Noah Glass, £10.99

Ling Ma's Severance has been covered in a number of outlets recently, including Paris Review, NPR, Vox, and Chicago Review of Books. Our Life in the Forest was covered in Saturday Paper, while The Patch received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. The Death of Noah Glass was included in Culturefly and Metro.

Featured books: All the Pieces Matter, £14.99; Paris in the Dark, £11.99; The Language of Secrets, £7.99 & Historical Noir, £9.99

All the Pieces Matter was covered in Crime Review, while Paris in the Dark was reviewed in Crime Reads. Elsewhere, The Language of Secrets author Ausma Zehanat Khan was interviewed by Trip Fiction here and Historical Noir author Barry Forshaw interviewed five authors who have turned their hand to historical crime writing for Mystery Scene.

Featured books: Follow Me In, £18.99 & Retrograde Orbit, £11.99

Follow Me In was covered in both Broken Frontier and A Place to Hang Your Cape. Retrograde Orbit was covered by Pipedream Comics here.

Featured books: Freedom Bound, £14.99 & We Shall Fight Until We Win, £9.99

Warren Pleece's Freedom Bound was featured in Sunday Post, The Scotsman and STV News among others this week. We Shall Fight Until We Win was featured in The List here and by The Student Newspaper here.

Featured books: Liza Jane & the Dragon, £12.99; Changers: Book Four, £10.99; Tigerbelle, £13.99 & Beautiful Music, £14.99

Liza Jane & the Dragon was included in Publishers Weekly's list of Big Indie Books for Fall 2018, and Changers: Book Four was reviewed in School Library Journal. Meanwhile, Tigerbelle was covered in Booklist and Women's Running Magazine, and Beautiful Music was in Santa Barbara Independent and Lansing City Pulse.

Featured books: Against Memoir, £15.99; Pretty Things, £14.99; Training School for Negro Girls, £14.99 & Love War Stories, £14.99

Michelle Tea's Against Memoir was covered in the New York Times recently, and Michelle was also interviewed by Electric Literature here. Pretty Things was reviewed by LitHub here. Training School for Negro Girls was covered in Nylon, Foreword Reviews and Bust, while Love War Stories received press from The Rumpus, Library Journal, Culture Trip and Centro Voices.

Featured books: Moon of the Crusted Snow, £12.99; Nobody Cares, £11.99 & The Kaizen of Poker, £14.99

Moon of the Crusted Snow was featured in Quill & Quire, and was also covered by KWNow.com here and Wellington Adviser here. Nobody Cares was reviewed by Climbing the Shelf.

The Kaizen of Poker author Sheree Bykofsky was interviewed on the Red Chip Poker Podcast here.

Featured books: Strange Stars, £20.00; The Constitution Demands It, £14.99 & You Have the Right to Remain Fat, £7.99

Jason Heller was interviewed by NPR about his book Strange Stars. Meanwhile, The Constitution Demands It was mentioned in a Huffington Post opinion piece, and You Have the Right to Remain Fat author Virgie Tovar took on Beverley Turner on the latter's LBC show.

Featured books: The Rehearsals, £12.99; The Black Cauldron, £9.99 & Slav Sisters, £12.99

Vladimir Sharov's The Rehearsals has won the 2018 Read Russian International Prize.

The Black Cauldron was covered in The Complete Review and Slav Sisters was reviewed in the Sunday Herald.

Featured books: The Hazards of Good Fortune, £14.99; Chourmo, £11.99; Strike Your Heart, £9.99 & My Brilliant Friend, £12.99

The Hazards of Good Fortune was reviewed in The Jewish Chronicle and A Life in Books, while Chourmo was covered in CrimeTime and Strike Your Heart was featured on the MCSBooks YouTube channel.

Finally, the trailer for the HBO adaptation of Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend is now available online, with the book also getting a recent review from Emerald Street. Elena's most recent weekend column for the Guardian is online here.

Featured books: Pictures of a Gone City, £23.99; Insurgent Supremacists, £20.99; Health Care Revolt, £13.99 & Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be..., £9.99

Richard A. Walker wrote an article for the San Francisco Chronicle this week, and his book Pictures of a Gone City was also reviewed by Insurgent Notes here. Meanwhile, Insurgent Supremacists was covered in Truthout, Health Care Revolt was reviewed by Providence Journal and Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be... received coverage from Funky Feminist here.

Featured books: Citizen Illegal, £13.99 & Black Queer Hoe, £13.99

Citizen Illegal has received massive press coverage of late, appearing in Paris Review, Poetry Foundation, Poets and Writers, and Buzzfeed among others.

Black Queer Hoe was covered in Teen Vogue, New City Lit and Lambda Literary.

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