Macmillan New Writing
Macmillan New Writing is an innovative idea from the Macmillan
publishing group. It is dedicated solely to publishing authors’ first
novels which have been submitted to Macmillan in the UK, usually direct rather
than through an agent. In the course of 2005 Macmillan assessed thousands of
manuscripts and selected six for the launch in April 2006, followed by one a
month thereafter. The list publishes the best of first fiction across all
genres, all of which are listed below.
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Across the Mystic Shore
Suroopa Mukherjee
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2 May 2006
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DJ Taylor, The Guardian, 8 April, 2006
"A delicate account of an Indian family life thrown into confusion by the arrival of a strange, solitary child."...
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Dark Rain
Conor Corderoy
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2 May 2006
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Nicholas Clee, Times Literary Supplement, 31 March 2006
"An energetic and agreeable example of the eco thriller"...
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North
Brian Martin
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2 May 2006
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Boyd Tonkin, The Independent, 7 April, 2006
"Brian Martin's North spins a ripe, Fowlesian tale of sexual and spiritual intrigue . . ."...
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Selfish Jean
Cate Sweeney
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2 May 2006
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Nicholas Clee, Times Literary Supplement, 31 March, 2006
"There is plenty to like about Selfish Jean . . . It is a slice of domestic realism . . . [a] talented writer"...
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Taking Comfort
Roger Morris
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2 May 2006
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Ian Hocking, Spike Magazine, 29 March, 2006
"There is much to recommend in this novel. Morris can write, and write well."...
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The Manuscript
Michael Stephen Fuchs
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2 May 2006
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Transparent Imprint
Michael Barnard
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7 April 2006
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When news of Macmillan's planned 'first novels' imprint leaked out in the Spring of last year, there was extensive coverage in the press, on radio and on web blogs. "The Guardian" called it 'Ryanair publishing'. Robert McCrum, writing in "the Observer", de...
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In the Shadow of Lady Jane (Richard Stocker)
Edward Charles
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1 Jun 2006
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Writer's Forum magazine, May 2006
Catches the spirit of the time . . . It's a rollicking story well told . . . Readers of historical romances will enjoy it....
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Homunculus
Hugh Paxton
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1 Jul 2006
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Michael Allen, April 2006
This book will take you by surprise and shock you. Pretty damn good. Brilliant, in fact....
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Three Things About Me
Aliya Whiteley
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7 Jul 2006
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Seven potential customer service representatives start their training course under the professional guidance of Rob Church. From the start, he is disillusioned with the quality of his latest batch of trainees, but ever the professional and an inveterate op...
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The Ghost of Che Guevara
Jason Webb
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1 Sep 2006
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A young American has joined the guerrillas in the jungles of southern Colombia. Hoggard, a British journalist hunts him down to get his story. Why has he joined up, what is his life like, what is his future - if he survives? Does the newly-named Martin rea...
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Blood and Water
Lucy McCarraher
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1 Sep 2006
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At 45, Mo Mozart has struggled to bring up her first two children as a single mother and, now they've flown the nest, she's concentrating on maintaining a career while being a good wife to her second, younger husband, Jack, and mother to their little daugh...
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The Deserter
Peter Bourne
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1 Nov 2006
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Beckie Jordan, The Big Issue in the North, October 2 2006
"For a debut novel, Bourne has excelled himself in the use of ...
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Another Time and Place
Samantha Grosser
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1 Dec 2006
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Rachel Howells, The Big Issue in the North, November 20, 2006
"This is a meticulously researched story that feels like it could have been ...
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Never Admit to Beige
Jonathan Drapes
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1 Dec 2006
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Matthew Aplin, Big Issue in the North, December 4, 2006
"This debut work puts Jonathan Drapes firmly on the map as one of ...
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