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Awards & Book News

V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night (Random) wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (Farrar) wins the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, The Guardian reports.

Kevin Jared Hosein wins the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for Hungry Ghosts (Ecco), BBC reports.

Winners of the Reading the West Book Awards are revealed.

The shortlist for the Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers is announced; The Bookseller has the news.

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel shortlist is released. The Bookseller has the announcement.

Page to Screen

June 14

Firebrand, based on Queen’s Gambit: A Novel of Katherine Parr by Elizabeth Fremantle. Amazon Prime. Reviews | Trailer

Just the Two of Us, based on the novel L’Amour et les Forêts by Éric Reinhardt. Diaphana Distribution. Reviews | Trailer

Treasure, based on the novel Too Many Men by Lily Brett. Bleecker Street. Reviews | Trailer

The Watchers, based on the novel by A.M. Shine. Warner Bros. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

NYT reviews Shadow Men: The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America by James Polchin (Counterpoint): “Polchin knows the era, and brings to his account a wealth of colorful supporting detail”; and The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America by Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer (Flatiron): “In many of the book’s best sections, the personal is political.”

Washington Post reviews The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi by Boyce Upholt (Norton): “Upholt seeks to break down the barriers that keep us from seeing the Mississippi River…. Far from a simple history, Upholt’s book gives readers a direct sensory encounter with the beauty and boldness of the river”; Parade by Rachel Cusk (Farrar; LJ starred review): “An experiment that foregrounds theme, striking its notes—on gender, artmaking, motherhood, freedom, death—with force”; and When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz (Farrar): “Devotees of Ganz’s pugilistic writing on Substack may be surprised by the restraint he displays in his first book. When the Clock Broke is a work of narrative history that is comparatively light on confrontation and polemic.”

LitHub rounds up the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

USA Today talks to Paul Tremblay about his new novel Horror Movie (Morrow; LJ starred review).

NYT has “6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week” and “9 New Books We Recommend This Week.”

The Guardian recommends five of the best fashion memoirs.

LitHub has a defense of queer villains in stories, while CrimeReads explains “the lure of faraway places in crime fiction.”

NYT reports on AI-powered reading guides to classic texts.

Authors on Air

When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders by Howard Blum (Harper) is being adapted as a scripted series, Deadline reports.

An MGM+ TV series is being developed from Stephen King’s novel The Institute; Deadline has the news.

Chop Shop, a true-crime series based on the book of the same name by Kathy Braidhill, is in the works, Deadline reports.

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