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Awards & Book News

The shortlist for the UK’s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is announced.

The UK’s Society of Authors announces the shortlist for the Encore Award for best second novel.

The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso (Atria) wins the Baltimore Science Fiction Society’s Compton Crook Award for best debut, Locus reports.

Kirkus launches a new indie award.

Whoopi Goldberg is starting a publishing imprint at Blackstone, Kirkus reports.

Page to Screen

April 17

4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, based on the YA graphic novel by Matthew Rosenberg & Tyler Boss. Amazon MGM. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

The Guardian reviews The Dog’s Gaze: A Visual History by Thomas W. Laqueur (Penguin Pr.): “By the end of this clever, beautiful book, Laqueur has persuasively made his point that the dog’s function in western art is to provide an entry-point or alter ego for viewers who might otherwise feel overwhelmed or outclassed.”

NYT reviews “four great new fantasy books to transport you to bold new worlds”: Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity (Del Rey), Green & Deadly Things by Jenn Lyons (Tor), The Geomagician by Jennifer Mandula (Del Rey), and Half City by Kate Golden (Ace).

LitHub gathers the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

NYT features Lena Dunham’s Famesick: A Memoir (Random) and its unusual press tour.

Rachel Khong, author of My Dear You: Stories (Knopf; LJ starred review), shares her “Annotated Nightstand” with LitHub.

Publishers Weekly interviews the evangelical author John Mark Comer, author of Into the Quiet: Following Jesus in a World of Noise (WaterBrook).

Patton Oswalt will narrate the audiobook of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s final “Talisman” book, Other Worlds Than These (S&S Audio), People reports.

NYT recommends “5 New Books We Love This Week.”

Kirkus rounds up the 20 most buzzworthy books right now.

CrimeReads shares an Orient Express reading list of novels that take place on the legendary train and six mystery novels with unorthodox settings and setups.

Reactor gathers five horror stories that humanize zombies.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon, authors of The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land (Crown).

Kirkus’s Fully Booked podcast speaks with Rainbow Rowell, author of Cherry Baby (Morrow; LJ starred review).

PBS NewsHour talks to Susan Page, author of The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History (Harper).

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