Press and reviews for Rites

• Arts Council England’s coverage of the German translation deal for Rites  http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/news/arts-council-news/yorkshires-next-great-young-novelist-signs-transla/

• A beautifully written and perceptive feature on Rites by Danny Arter in the Kensington & Chelsea Review. https://twitter.com/Route_News/status/263968219742752768/photo/1

• Nice write-up of my recent panel event at the Manchester Literary Festival with Stuart Evers and A.C. Boyle. Great afternoon. http://manchesterliterature.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/very-well-placed.html

• Rites is going German! http://www.thebookseller.com/news/first-foreign-deal-route.html

• ‎”One of the best things I’ve read this year… The characters are all skilfully delineated and the pacing is damn nearly perfect. It’s an old cliché, but I genuinely did find it very hard to put the book down at times… Very highly recommended.” Jonathan Pinnock reviews Rites. http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2012/08/the-late-review-rites-by-sophie-coulombeau/

• “A charming first novel …. Real promise emanates from every page for an author in the early stages of her career.” One & Other review Rites. http://www.oneandother.com/articles/the-review-rites-by-sophie-coulombeau/

• Not strictly press for Rites, but allow me to shoehorn it in anyway. A piece for the Independent in which I ponder the pros and cons of being a PhD student. http://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/postgraduate-study/the-plight-of-a-phd-7976138.html

• We Love This Book tipped Rites as a possible wild card for the Booker longlist. Erroneously, alas. What a lovely gesture of confidence though. http://www.welovethisbook.com/news/so-whos-going-be-booker-longlist  and http://www.welovethisbook.com/news/sally-hughes-picks-man-booker-longlist

• I write a feature in The Bookseller’s magazine We Love This Book about the continuing power of confession in a secular society.http://www.welovethisbook.com/features/sophie-coulombeau-power-confession

• An “assured and disquieting debut.. a carefully orchestrated, dizzying narrative”. The Daily Mail reviews Rites. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2172613/DEBUTS.html

• “Incredibly well crafted… zips along at a breakneck pace, insisting you return to the start once you’ve finished.” Nick Ahad reviews Rites and interviews me in The Yorkshire Post. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/lifestyle/the-arts/books/rite-here-right-now-for-writer-on-the-rise-1-4739187#.UAALuhOF5LQ.twitter

• “Honest… human… despairing… it broke my heart a little bit. A damn fine book.” Mark Allen reviews Rites. http://www.blogomatic3000.com/2012/07/06/book-review-rites/

• “Makes fully plausible the shifts in affection, allegiance, even desire, of her young characters, and shows how these shifts can be both terrifyingly quick and deeply felt.” Rites reviewed in The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/rites-by-sophie-coulombeau-7922391.html

• “Stunning… A new writer who possesses breathtaking originality and verve”. Ian Kirkpatrick reviews Rites. http://iandavidkirkpatrick 

• “A wonderful sense of uncertainty” “Insightful observations” “A fine debut novel”. David Hebblethwaite reviews Rites. http://davidhblog.wordpress.com/

• The wonderful local news channel One&OtherTV came to the book launch of Rites on Saturday 16 June 2012 and made this gorgeous short film about the event. Crikey, all my friends are good looking. http://oneandother.tv/#.T-gezmuo9NE.facebook

• “Compelling and provocative”. “Coulombeau pulls it off beautifully”. “Coulombeau’s unflinchingly clear-headed analysis of the human psyche is deeply refreshing”. Rites’s first national review in the Sunday Express!  http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/327019/Crime-of-distinction-Crime-of-distinction

• Feature on Rites from The Guardian’s Student Paper of the Year YorkVision: http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/the-rites-stuff/.

• First radio interview about Rites! With the lovely Elly Fiorentini on BBC Radio York. In which, despite horrific nerves beforehand, I had a grand old time. Starts about 9 minutes in.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rxwmd

• First review of Rites! In which York Press claims it is “un-put-downable”, and I flirt with misanthropy. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/books/9703116.York_novelist_has_been_named_the____next_great_author___/

• In which my cherished University shows off about my book, and I am very happy to let them. Please note the reference to Rebecca Pedley’s role in producing Rites - fantastically astute young editor with a critical acumen I could only dream about at such a tender age. She’ll go far.    http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2012/events/sophie-coulombeau/

• Interview on the fantastic local media website ‘One and Other’, which also ran a lovely taster feature in the very first issue of their free print magazine. I don’t want to boast, but I was on a page with Hilary Mantel, yeah?          http://www.oneandother.com/articles/sophie-coulombeau-reading-her-rites/

• Interview by Stephen May, author of ‘Life! Death! Prizes!’ (Bloomsbury). In which I am compared, for the first and only time, to a Spartan. The man has not seen me deconstruct an all-you-can-eat buffet. http://thesecondbesttime.blogspot.co.uk/?spref=tw