One Hit Wonders? - Definitely Not

Debut novels can be a hard act to follow, especially when they receive such praise and recognition - it sets the expectations of their readers (and critics) so much higher for their next book! But this month we're featuring four writers who proved they had more up their sleeves and didn't disappoint!

In 2008 33-year-old Aravind Adiga made his debut with the Booker Prize winning 'The White Tiger' - an astounding success and a tough act to follow, however soon came the release of 'Between the Assassinations', and every bit as impressive! Set in Kittur, a fictional coastal town "between Goa and Calicut", it's a collection of stories with plenty to say about the realities of life in so-called glamorous new India, from upper-caste bankers to lower-caste rickshaw pullers, Muslim tea boys and Christian headmasters, it has them all.

Monica Ali's debut with 'Brick Lane' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and she was also voted newcomer of the year for the British Book Awards - but in 2009 her successful follow-up to Brick Lane ' In the Kitchen' proved her work was no flash in the pan when writing about multicultural Britain with her story of immigrant worker life in a high-end hotel in London.

Crime Writer Colin Cotterill launched his quirky crime series with an unusual hero, the ageing Dr. Siri Paiboun, staving off retirement in favour of some dogged detective work in the People's Republic of Laos . A staggering seven novels in the series later, Cotterill was awarded the Crime Writers' Association 'Dagger in the Library' award for being 'the author of crime fiction whose body of work is currently giving the greatest enjoyment to library users'.

Jeffrey Eugenides' first novel hit the jackpot in 1993 with his critical portrait of American life in The Virgin Suicides, which was translated into fifteen languages and made into a major motion picture. Nine years later Eugenides proved to his readers he was worth the wait, with an epic second novel, 'Middlesex', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003 and unequivocally established Eugenides' reputation as a chronicler of the American Dream.

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