{"id":76,"date":"2010-01-23T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=76"},"modified":"2010-01-23T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T13:56:12","slug":"best-new-novelists-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Best New Novelists of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I came across a couple of interesting articles on the Telegraph website that may be of interest to some.<\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The first is\u00c2\u00a0one of these predictive pieces that tips the &#8216;next big thing&#8217; &#8212; in this case <a title=\"Telegraph Top New Novelists for 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/books-life\/7046647\/Top-new-novelists-for-2010.html\" target=\"_blank\">new novelists<\/a>. It&#8217;s interesting to see what type of novels are due for publication (and, perhaps, more importantly, promotion). Charlotte&#8217;s friend Simon Lelic is in the list. I saw his book being promoted\u00c2\u00a0in the window of Foyle&#8217;s at St. Pancras station last week.<\/div>\n<div><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/books-life\/7046647\/Top-new-novelists-for-2010.html\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The other one is a <a title=\"Telegraph Top 20 Books of the Decade\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/books-life\/7046298\/The-20-best-books-of-the-decade.html\" target=\"_blank\">top 20 books of the decade <\/a>thing (not just novels). Quite a few of the novels and authors\u00c2\u00a0we discussed last term are featured, including interesting choice like Persepolis.\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Now to try and work on something to send out for reading over the weekend.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a couple of interesting articles on the Telegraph website that may be of interest to some. \u00c2\u00a0 The first is\u00c2\u00a0one of these predictive pieces that tips the &#8216;next big thing&#8217; &#8212; in this case new novelists. It&#8217;s interesting to see what type of novels are due for publication (and, perhaps, more importantly, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=76\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best New Novelists of 2010&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[58,57,59,60,1261],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing","tag-best-books-of-the-decade","tag-best-new-novelist","tag-book-promotion","tag-first-time-novelists","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}