“What the old janitor did in this room, no one knew,” says the little-girl narrator (child actress Dakota Fanning, with her usual eerie poise) in the opening moments of Jessica Yu’s haunting ...

When it comes to narrators, these authors don't discriminate. Their storytellers can be inanimate objects, animals, 5-year-olds, dead, or undead. We've rounded up the novels, short stories, and ...

Mantle has pre-empted a debut novel with an “unforgettable child narrator” in a “good six-figure deal”. Sam Humphreys, associate publisher at Mantle, pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights to Only ...

The Unreliable Narrator: Su-mi (Im Soo-jung), who returns home with her sister Su-yeon (Moon Geun Young) to live with her father and stepmother. Biggest Whopper: Su-yeon's been dead for ages, and ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with writer and audiobook narrator Julia Whelan about what it was like bringing her own profession to the pages of her new novel Thank You For Listening. All right.

If "The Catcher in the Rye" were written today, the publishing insider's joke goes, it would be categorized as a young-adult novel. The YA market - along with that of its publishing twin, "New Adult" ...