THE ISLAND AT THE END OF EVERYTHING has been shortlisted for not one but two awards, the Blue Peter Award for Best Story and the Costa Children’s Book Award. The Blue Peter Awards called the book, “Poetic, bittersweet and full of heart, this has the feel and quality of an instant classic” and the Costa Awards said it was, “Entirely original with not a word out of place – as vivid and beautiful as the butterflies themselves.”

Library Journal has named THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE the best Science Fiction/Fantasy book of 2017, saying of the novel, “a gorgeous debut from an author who knows her Russian fairy tales.” Del Rey published the book June 27, 2017.

Jaroslav Kalfar, author of novel SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA, is a recipient of a 2018 NEA Literary Fellowship. Little, Brown published SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA on March 7, 2017.

Yrsa Daley-Ward’s poetry collection bone was featured on Saint Heron’s 14 Books to Add to Your Library, where they write of Yrsa’s verses: “pretty, but still effective… pack empowering womanly sass.” Penguin Books published bone on September 26, 2017.

Rachel Khong’s “hilarious and captivating” debut novel GOODBYE, VITAMIN was reviewed by Tethered by Letters. Henry Holt published GOODBYE, VITAMIN on July 11, 2017.

Hermione Hoby’s debut novel NEON IN DAYLIGHT is one of the books Bookriot is looking forward to in 2018. NEON IN DAYLIGHT’s New York-inspired cover and its designers get a long feature in PW. Catapult will publish NEON IN DAYLIGHT on January 8, 2018.

STICKY FINGERS garnered a very favorable review in the New Yorker & New York Magazine this week, with Amanda Petrusich in the New Yorker calling it “crisp and cutting… terrifically smart and full of anecdotes that anyone remotely interested in rock and roll, publishing, or the legacy of the nineteen-sixties will find engrossing.” Critic Christian Lorentzen wrote in New York that ““Hagan’s biography is a colossal achievement of reporting and synthesis, fast-paced, compulsively readable, and consistently insightful.”

This next installment from 10% Happier author, Dan Harris has been praised by Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening as, "a goldmine of wise guidance for both fidgety skeptics and experienced meditators alike.

The San Francisco Chronicle published an excellent interview with Eileen Myles in support of their latest book, AFTERGLOW, with an accompanying photo spread. Grove, Atlantic published AFTERGLOW on September 12, 2017.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED by Adam Rutherford is an Amazon Top 100 Book of the Year, and a Best science book of 2017. The book was also reviewed in the New York Times Book Review which called it “nothing less than a tour de force-a heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling.” The Experiment published the book October 3, 2017.