About Fear in the Sunlight • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Bourbon Street Books (April 9, 2013) Summer 1936. Mystery writer Josephine Tey joins her friends in the resort village of Portmeirion, Wales, to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephine’s novel, A Shilling for Candles. […]
Archives for March 2013
Elizabeth Winder, author of Pain, Parties, Work, on tour April/May 2013
About Pain, Parties, Work • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 16, 2013) “I dreamed of New York, I am going there.” On May 31, 1953, twenty-year-old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City for a one-month stint at “the intellectual fashion magazine” Mademoiselle to be a guest editor for its prestigious annual college issue. Over the next twenty-six […]
Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train, on tour April 2013
About Orphan Train • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (April 2, 2013) Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a […]
Liza Palmer, author of Nowhere but Home, on tour April 2013
About Nowhere but Home • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (April 2, 2013) The strategy on the gridiron of Friday Night Lights is nothing compared to the savagery of coming home . . . Queenie Wake has just been fired from her job as a chef for not allowing a customer to use ketchup . […]
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, author of The Great Escape, on tour April 2013
About The Great Escape • Paperback: 448 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (April 2, 2013) The dazzling sequel to Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s beloved bestseller Call Me Irresistible Lucy Jorik is a champ at not embarrassing her family—not surprising, since her mother is one of the most famous women in the world. But now Lucy has done […]
Stephanie Laurens, author of And Then She Fell, on tour March/April 2013
About And Then She Fell • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Avon (March 26, 2013) #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens has returned to another utterly irresistible branch on her beloved Cynster family tree . . . The only thing more troublesome than a Cynster man . . . . . . is […]
Amy Shearn, author of The Mermaid of Brooklyn, on tour April/May 2013
About The Mermaid of Brooklyn Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (April 2, 2013) SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IN LIFE IS A FABULOUS PAIR OF SHOES—AND A LITTLE HELP FROM A MERMAID. Formerly an up-and-coming magazine editor, Jenny Lipkin is now your average, stretched-too-thin Brooklyn mom, tackling the challenges of raising two children in a cramped […]
Lionel Shriver, author of The New Republic, on tour April 2013
About The New Republic • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 2, 2013) Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. When he leaves his lucrative law career for a foreign correspondent post in a Portuguese backwater with a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognizes Barrington Saddler, the disappeared reporter he’s replacing, as the larger-than-life […]
Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins, on tour April 2013
About Beautiful Ruins • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 2, 2013) From the moment it opens—on a rocky patch of Italian coastline, circa 1962, when a daydreaming young innkeeper looks out over the water and spies a mysterious woman approaching him on a boat—Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster […]
Sarah K., author of The Secret Life of a Submissive, on tour March/April 2013
About The Secret Life of a Submissive • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: HarperCollins (March 26, 2013) When Max comes into Sarah’s life — charming, handsome and deliciously brooding – she can’t stop herself. Before long she has surrendered to him in every way: becoming his submissive, yielding her body to his every desire, powerless […]