Happiest of publication days to Hesse Phillips (they/she) for #Lightborne from Atlantic Books. It's been some journey!
🦋Emma's Biblio Treasures🦋 Laura Coffey Summersdale Pan Macmillan Sonia Velton Catherine Mack/Catherine McKenzie Hesse Phillips (they/she) Rachel Khong Fiona McPhillips Viking Books UK Transworld Books Abacus Books Sarah Perry Hutchinson Heinemann Already read and loved The Nightingale's Castle🥰, got Lightborne and Enlightenment and will get When We Were Silent and Real Americans soon.
Out-of-this-world visuals for an artist from another planet—Lightborne has been recognized as Best in Show for AAF’s District 5 in 2024 for a run of Missy Elliott concert visuals! 👽
#missy #missy elliott #missy misdemeanor #addys #addyawards
#Lightborne by Hesse Phillips is the Times Books historical fiction pick of the month!
Fans of George & Mary (starring thee Julianne Moore) are in for a seriously wild ride. Historical fiction doesn’t get much better than this
Out now Atlantic Books
#ScoopNashville — Jimeco Lightborne assaults girlfriend during argument over past relationships
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“Told in vivid, punchy prose, LIGHTBORNE is a brilliantly original take on a familiar story,” writes Times Books in this glowing review of Hesse Phillips (they/she)'s debut novel on the life (and death) of Christopher Marlowe. 🕯️
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Here's a look at what we're publishing in May 🎉
The Diaries of Mr Lucas atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-diari…
The In - Between atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-in-be…
The Blue Maiden atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-blue-…
Lightborne atlantic-books.co.uk/book/lightborn…
The Liberation Line atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-liber…
Human Rights, Robot…
Great blog post from Hesse Phillips (they/she) about their trip to London last week. Lovely to see Lightborne out in the wild!
'Told in vivid, punchy prose, Lightborne is a brilliantly original take on a familiar story.' Brilliant short review and 'Book of the Month' in the Sunday Times historical roundup for #Lightborne from Hesse Phillips (they/she) and Atlantic Books
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Finally managed to grab a minute to blog about #Lightborne 's pub day last week as well as my quasi-religious pilgrimages to Gay's The Word and TheRosePlayhouse - two places of enormous significance to Marlowe's story, but for very different reasons.
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Great first review of Hesse Phillips (they/she) #Lightborne in your morning's @irishtimes. 'A fast-paced narrative chain of theatrical scenes breathes new life into familiar images of the period.' Atlantic Books
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Better than Burgess! The great Nick Rennison is dagger-sharp: LIGHTBORNE from Hesse Phillips (they/she) is the most vividly imagined whirl around the world of Kit Marlowe I've ever read. It *must* win a prize. Times Books thetimes.co.uk/article/new-hi…
Lightborne by Hesse Phillips: Biography of playwright Christopher Marlowe exerts a powerful pull
irishtimes.com/culture/books/… Hesse Phillips (they/she) Atlantic Books Irish Times Books
TricksterShadow survivors 'lightborne is for noobs'
Also survivors doing shit like this that the only counter to is leave them both in the locker and look for one of the other two survivors because it's a stale mate till they run out of easy stun perks.