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Oct 21, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Essie Chambers |Elizabeth A. O'Connor |Kaveh Akbar
Our Discover Prize Winner 2024 We’re so excited to announce the 2024 Discover Prize Winner, Swift River by Essie Chambers. Each month, we select a debut novel to feature as the Discover Monthly Pick. Booksellers read and deliberate to deliver a shortlist from these selections and other debuts, and ultimately select an overall Discover Prize winner.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Elizabeth A. O'Connor |Kaveh Akbar |Lottie Hazell
Our annual Discover Prize finalists are finally here, and we’re so thrilled. Intended to highlight the best debuts of the year and recognize emerging literary talent, our Discover program has recognized authors like Tess Gunty, Amanda Peters and more. Take a look through our 2024 Discover Prize finalists and join us in celebrating these great reads. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Elizabeth A. O'Connor |Isabelle McConville
A Time of Mirrored Unease: A Guest Post by Elizabeth O’Connor Our September Discover pick is a tender story of a young girl’s coming of age on the shores of a remote island. Elizabeth O’Connor has penned an exclusive essay on where she found the inspiration for this story and how she feels about having her debut novel out in the world, down below.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Catherine Newman |Jessica Anthony |Elizabeth A. O'Connor
B&N Reads, Summer Reading, We Recommend Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter One of the greatest joys of summer reading is grabbing a perfectly portable novel to take on all your adventures, outdoor or indoor, poolside or passenger seat. Another universal truth about summer is how busy we all are.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
booklistonline.com | Elizabeth A. O'Connor
Read by Dyfrig Morris and others. May 2024. 4hr. Books on Tape, DD, (9780593829981).
REVIEW.
First published August 2024 ().
On a remote coastal island off Wales live “girls married at sixteen, with children by twenty, widowed by the sea by twenty-five, worn out and lost.” In 1938, 18-year-old Manod remains unwed, still caring for her younger sister since their mother’s death. Bright Manod was good at school. She daydreams about working for a wealthy mainland family, or becoming a nun in Europe.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Elizabeth A. O'Connor
Manod is 18. The Welsh teen has never left the island on which she was born. The year is 1938, everyone on the island (all 200+ inhabitants) wear the fashions that had come to style 20 years earlier, and the whispers about the world soon falling apart merely make it to their ears. In WHALE FALL, a whale washes up on the beach, and immediately the worry that it harbors bad luck begins to make its way through the town gossip.
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May 22, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Elizabeth A. O'Connor
Gwyneth Keyworth's nuanced portrayal of Manod reveals the 18-year-old's transformative journey in this haunting story, set in 1938. Keyworth smoothly transports listeners to an isolated Welsh island and evokes the poignant interactions between Manod, a local, and the English couple, both ethnologists, who arrive to study the villagers' traditional ways.
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May 8, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Elizabeth A. O'Connor
The year is 1938 in "Whale Fall" and a whale has washed ashore on a remote island off the coast of Wales. It's September, lobster season. The boats are "half-rotten and covered over with barnacles, the nets flopping over the sides like tongues."A month later, two other foreign bodies make land, this time in the form of Joan and Edward, English ethnographers who heard about the whale while visiting a mainland pub. They are hoping to study the island's culture so they can share its stories.
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May 1, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Elizabeth A. O'Connor
The year is 1938 in "Whale Fall" and a whale has washed ashore on a remote island off the coast of Wales. It's September, lobster season. The boats are "half-rotten and covered over with barnacles, the nets flopping over the sides like tongues." A month later, two other foreign bodies make land, this time in the form of Joan and Edward, English ethnographers who heard about the whale while visiting a mainland pub. They are hoping to study the island's culture so they can share its stories.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
doitinparis.com | Elizabeth A. O'Connor
A captivating journey through the heart of Bardot, the fabulous destiny of the Kennedy's cook, another adventurous novel by Erri de Luca, the biographies of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano making waves in the United States... As the sun timidly emerges, it's time to grab a bench in a lovely park and devour the latest great novels.
