Former New Review debut novelists include both Rooney and Burton, Gail Honeyman, Emma Healey, Oynikan Braithwaite and Sara Collins, winner of this year’s Costa debut novel award. Dialogue Books, Merky Books, Jacaranda Books – all of these imprints are now around, looking for people with different and very valid voices. What do you think about the world of books and publishing in 2020 – rude health or room for improvement? “There was an anxiety around writing a novel that I didn’t feel around writing poetry, weirdly,” she says. What is the best debut novel you’ve read?

Source: The Guardian January 26, 2020 07:52 UTC