Riverhead Author Kamila Shamsie Wins the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Riverhead author Kamila Shamsie has won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel, HOME FIRE, it was announced at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, June 6. This annual award, now in its 23rd year, celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women throughout the world. “In the end we chose the

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June Adult Hot Titles

We have lots of juicy new titles in store for you this June! The export edition of The Rooster Bar, exciting thrillers, movie tie-ins, a Zelda encyclopedia, and the release of Florida by Lauren Groff. See the rest below!   Order form: Adult_HotTitles_June_2018

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May Adult Hot Titles

Happy May! Books to look forward to this May include: a mesmerizing new literary work by Michael Ondaatje, bestselling author of The English Patient; the MM edition of Canto Bight that’s just in time for Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you); and a whole host of titles perfect for those summer beach days. Check

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Riverhead to Publish Illustrated Book About the Refugee Crisis by Khaled Hosseini this Fall

Riverhead Books is proud to announce a new work from the award-winning and internationally-bestselling writer and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Khaled Hosseini, as was revealed in Entertainment Weekly.  The new work, titled SEA PRAYER, is a short, illustrated book that Hosseini wrote in response to the current refugee crisis and the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose

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