Shortly after, Matteo Gelsomino, Nicolas Delestrade, and Charles-Henri Teule joined, after the split of their previous band, A Call to Sincerity.

In July 2015, they signed with the record label Arising Empire, and in November they released their debut studio album, Souvenirs.

[3][4] In April 2020, the band parted ways with Gelsomino as vocalist and started an online audition process to find a new singer.

[6] A month later, the band signed with Out of Line Music, a record label based in Berlin, and released the single "Lost Cause".

[9] In 2022, Novelists released two further singles, "Smoke Signals" and "Heretic", the latter featuring singer Florian Salfati of the band LANDMVRKS.