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Upmarket? Book Club? Literary? How to Describe Novels that Don’t Fit Into a Genre

BPA Blog, Featured Articles, Tess O'Hara ArticlesBy Tess January 11, 2021

If you’re writing contemporary fiction that doesn’t fit neatly into a genre such as crime, fantasy, romance, etc. it can be hard to know how to describe it in a cover letter. There are a lot of terms out there: general fiction, book club fiction, literary, upmarket, and specific subgenres like uplit, new adult and…

Review: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

BPA Blog, Featured Articles, Published NovelBy Frances Senn April 8, 2019

Not really being a fan of murder mystery or ‘who dunnit?’ plotlines, I was initially sceptical of Stuart Turton’s debut novel ‘The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle’. Yet, given its critical acclaim as winner of the Costa Book Awards 2018, I thought that there must be something more to it than the Cluedo storylines you…