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3 weeks ago | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Isobel Edmondson |Sophie Percival
What are you most excited about when it comes to the launch of your new book: We Need Your Art? I'm excited for We Need Your Art to go out there and start changing people's lives. For my book baby to go have a life of her own, inspiring people to create, taking care of artists who are hurting, gently nudging people back to their art. This lead up has been so intense, and I have championed this book with my whole heart. It is time for the book to start working her magic.
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1 month ago | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Kaya Purchase |Sophie Percival
Firstly, I want to congratulate you on the novel. It’s such an important piece of work in terms of how it grapples with ecological themes and the human experience. It feels like the most accurate representation of climate anxiety at this specific point in history that I’ve read. This is a novel about grief and confronting the truth of mortality, but the narrator’s personal experiences of grief serve as a microcosm for the collective grief we all feel right now for a collapsing planet.
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1 month ago | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Madeleine Knowles |Sophie Percival
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer our questions. We’re so happy to have The Other Valley as our March Book of the Month!With The Other Valley's release in the UK this month, I’d love to know how your experience as a debut author has been so far and how it feels to know your novel is being read around the world? First, thanks so much for choosing The Other Valley as your book of the month! I appreciate the international angle of your question.
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2 months ago | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Sian Dennis |Sophie Percival
“This book is for my mother, who lives in every line,” Chelsea Bieker writes in the dedication to her second novel, Madwoman, alongside a candid photo of her own mother. It’s a disarmingly intimate opening that sets the tone for a blistering journey through the complexities of motherhood, the art of survival, and the painful legacies we inherit.
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2 months ago | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Madeleine Knowles |Sophie Percival
First, thank you very much for taking the time to talk to me! To start, could you tell me about the origins of The Alternatives? Thank you so much for picking it as your book of the month! And for the gorgeous review! And for chatting with me about it now. I never know what a book will be from the outset, but I started out with this boomy, funny, heartsore geologist character, Olwen. She came to me on the west coast of Ireland in a place called Connemara, where I wrote a lot of the book.
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2 months ago | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Emily Goulding |Sophie Percival
Catherine Airey’s Confessions follows three generations of women moving from Ireland to New York, and it was a book that I simply didn’t want to end. It opens with Cora Brady, stranded in New York in September 2001 after she loses her father to 9/11. When she receives a letter from her estranged aunt in rural Ireland inviting her to come and stay, her family history begins to unspool, revealing generations of unspoken history and secrets. I could barely believe how good this book was.
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2 months ago | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Kate Hopkins |Sophie Percival
Clare Sestanovich’s debut novel follows the acclaimed short-story collection Objects of Desire. It explores a young woman’s fraught coming of age and an unusual friendship between sixteen-year-old Eva and Jamie, who meet by chance. She comes from Brooklyn and is the child of liberal middle-class parents; he has grown up in Manhattan in a family as dysfunctional as it is wealthy. Their backgrounds could not be more different.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Lara Toffanello |Sophie Percival
A girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can’t get out. An extraordinary debut about the daughter of Afghan refugees growing up between the silverfish-infested public housing of Berlin and the drug-fuelled nightclubs of its underground, Good Girl is a novel charged with soul and defiance. Although the novel often uses quite elaborate vocabulary and terminology, making it a slower read at times, Good Girl remains a remarkable portrait of youth, desire and shame.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Sophie Percival
After the roaring success of her debut, Bellies, Nicola Dinan has produced another soon to be literary classic. Disappoint Me asks us how someone’s past decisions and relationships affect their current ones, exploring how those past and present situations can collide quite spectacularly. When Max meets Vincent, everything seems to be going well, but little does she know, Vincent can’t shake his past. And when the truth comes to light, will Max be able to?
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Sophie Percival |Nupur Lakhe
The Position of Spoons and other intimacies is a collection of essays, stories, and short texts. Some adhere to the fragmented writing style, while others conform to a long-form text, projecting a fluidity that fits to various categories of writing styles. The writing pieces sprout from the minuscule detailing of something ordinary like lemons, shoes, or an author's work.
