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About Amazon Rising Stars

Over the course of the year we'll bring you twelve books from talented new authors. We will present them in groups of four, and ask you to help choose a winner from each group. We look at customer reviews to inform our decision, so review your favourite title to increase its chance of winning at the group stages. After all twelve titles have been featured we will announce an overall winner, at the end of the year.

Check back for regular updates, and remember--the book with the highest number of great customer reviews has the best chance of being crowned the overall winner.

Amazon Rising Stars 2011: And the Winner Is...

Into The Darkest Corner

Congratulations to Elizabeth Haynes who is our Amazon Rising Star of the Year for 2011. Her novel Into The Darkest Corner is a gripping thriller which garnered some incredible reviews from Amazon customers.

You can read more about why we loved Into The Darkest Corner, as well as find other great books that were published in 2011, in our feature on the Best Books of 2011.

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Rising Star Makes Orange Prize Shortlist

The Very Thought of You
Congratulations to Rosie Alison for making the shortlist for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction. Rosie was one of Amazon's Rising Stars in 2009 for her debut novel The Very Thought of You. The Orange prize was set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible and is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman in the English language.

More about the Orange Prize

Amazon Rising Star of the Year

Congratulations to Liza Klaussmann; chosen as our Amazon Rising Star of the Year 2012 for her debut, Tigers in Red Weather.

Amazon Rising Stars 2012--The Finalists

Round I Winner: Eowyn Ivey

Eowyn Ivey

Named after a character from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Eowyn Ivey currently works at an independent bookstore in Palmer, Alaska. Before that, she was a reporter and editor for the Frontiersman newspaper and won a number of awards, including Best Non-Daily Columnist from the Alaska Press Club. Several of her short stories have been published in the anthology, Cold Flashes, and the literary journal, Cirque. Eowyn lives in Alaska with her husband and two daughters.

Find out more about The Snow Child.

Read a Q&A on the Amazon Eowyn Ivey Page.

Round II Winner: Francesca Brill

Francesca Brill

Francesca Brill is a screenwriter and film maker. She lives in west London.

Find out more about The Harbour.

Read a Q&A on the Amazon Francesca Brill Page.

Round III Winner: Liza Klaussmann

Liza Klaussmann

Liza Klaussmann was born in New York but lives in London. Already sold in more than a dozen languages, Tigers in Red Weather is her first novel. She is the great great great granddaughter of Herman Melville.

Find out more about Tigers in Red Weather.

Read a Q&A on the Amazon Liza Klaussmann Page.

Amazon Rising Stars--Featured titles from 2012

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