Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, on tour July and August, 2012

| March 27, 2012

About The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Random House Meet Harold Fry, recently retired.  He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast.  Little differentiates one day from the next.  Then one morning [...]

Susan Vreeland, author of Clara and Mr. Tiffany, on tour May/June 2012

| March 12, 2012

About Clara and Mr. Tiffany Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (March 20, 2012) It’s 1893, and at the Chicago World’s Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows that he hopes will earn him a place on the international artistic stage. But behind the scenes [...]

Matthew Pearl, author of The Technologists, on tour February/March 2012

| November 28, 2011

About The Technologists Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Random House (February 21, 2012) The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on . . . THE [...]

Sarah Bird, author of The Gap Year, on tour August, 2011

| June 8, 2011

. About The Gap Year Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Knopf (July 5, 2011) From the widely praised author of The Yokota Officers Club and The Flamenco Academy, a novel as hilarious as it is heartbreaking about a single mom and her seventeen-year-old daughter learning how to let go in that precarious moment before college empties the nest.  [...]

Juliet Grey, author of Becoming Marie Antoinette, on tour August 2011

| May 9, 2011

About Becoming Marie Antoinette Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (August 9, 2011) This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette. Why must it be me? I wondered. When I am so clearly inadequate to [...]