Barnes & Noble has just awarded Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth the 2018 Discover Great New Writers Award for fiction!
The Discover Great New Writers Awards are presented annually in recognition of literary excellence. The six finalists for the Discover Great New Writers Awards were chosen by two panels of noted authors from 52 titles picked by Barnes & Noble booksellers. Barnes & Noble called it "a timeless story of brothers, revenge, injustice and honor."
Check out some more amazing quotes for this book:
“Only Killers and Thieves is a powerful debut. Paul Howarth brings early Australia to life, bloody warts and all, in an epic tale of murder, revenge, and colonial oppression, with very little room for redemption. The story and his words will stay with you, long after you have finished the book.”
—New York Review of Books
“Prose like that arrives direct from Cormac McCarthy’s dusty Southwest…Howarth’s spotlights how arbitrary frontier justice can be. But he also asks: How much less arbitrary is a purportedly civilized society?”
—Washington Post
Find out more about the Barnes & Noble 2018 Discover Awards here.
Congrats, Paul!
-Lainey