Have you had a look at Waterstone selection of the debut novels they consider the most interesting and also the most likely to scoop up the literay prizes and accolades in 2012?
5 of them are registered in Best-seller to Box-office data base, www.bs2bo.com, since April 2011!
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce, Doubleday (15 Mar 2012)
Harold Fry receives a letter from an old friend whom he hasn’t seen in 20 years. Queenie is dying of an inoperable cancer. Harold writes her a letter, but instead of posting it, he finds himself on an unplanned journey from Dorset to the north of England – 500 miles, entirely on foot.
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The Land of Decoration by Grace McLean, Chatto & Windus (1 Mar 2012)
The story is told by Judith, the daughter of a Jehovah’s Witness, a sect who preach that the end of the world is nigh. Her father, a widower, works in a factory, is very dour and grumpy. Judith lives very much in an imaginary world she has created, called “The Land of Decoration”, which is a microcosm of her own world, with her neighborhood made from clay and cardboard, and small figurines representing the people in her life. Judith is entranced when one day she depicts it snowing in The Land of Decoration and then it does.
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The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan, VIRAGO – October 2011
An ocean liner sank crossing the Atlantic, but unlike the Titanic episode of the year before, they are not in the North Sea.
Grace tells us, from within her prison, of how she came to be there. In one of the lifeboats are 40 people in a boat designed for 38. They just manage to stay afloat, and have to paddle vigorously to avoid being sucked into the vortex of the sinking liner. They also must pass other people: children, women, men-without taking them on board. The theme is set-who will survive? And at what cost?
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The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker, Random House (juin 2012)
The novel centers on an eleven-year-old girl and her family who wake one morning in their modest suburban home in California, to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow.
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The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (September 7, 2011)
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.
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