About The Silent Oligarch • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (January 19, 2012) A London intelligence agent pursues a money launderer to expose the dealings of a shadowy Russian oligarch. In a world where national borders shrink to insignificance in the face of colossal wealth and corporate power, The Silent Oligarch offers […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for January 9th – 13th
Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank Monday, January 9th: Book Dilettante Tuesday, January 10th: The Book Bag . . All the Flowers in Shanghai by Duncan Jepson Monday, January 9th: Reflections of a Bookaholic Tuesday, January 10th: Col Reads Wednesday, January 11th: Bloggin’ ‘Bout Books . Little Princes by Conor Grennan Monday, January 9th: Library […]
Gary Marcus, author of Guitar Zero, on tour January/February 2012
About Guitar Zero • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (January 19, 2012) On the eve of his fortieth birthday, a professor of no discernible musical talent learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone of any age might master a new skill. Just about every human being knows how to listen […]
Dave Isay, author of All There Is, on tour February 2012
About All There Is • Hardcover: 176 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (February 2, 2012) A celebration of love from StoryCorps. In All There Is, founder Dave Isay shares stories of love and marriage from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many and remarkable paths that relationships can take. From the excitement and […]
Catherine McKenzie, author of Spin, on tour February 2012
About Spin • Paperback: 448 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 7, 2012) Kate’s To-Do List: 1. Go to rehab 2. Befriend/spy on “It Girl” 3. Write killer expose 4. Land dream job Piece of cake! When Kate Sandford lands an interview at her favorite music magazine, The Line, it’s the chance of a lifetime. So […]
Jane McCafferty, author of First You Try Everything, on tour February 2012
About First You Try Everything • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 17, 2012) An engrossing tale of a marriage that’s falling apart and a wife who will stop at nothing to keep it together. From their early days in college, Evvie and Ben were drawn to each other by feelings of isolation stemming […]
Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, on tour February 2012
About Cinderella Ate My Daughter • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher:Harper Paperbacks (January 31, 2012) The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller Schoolgirls reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent. Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from […]
Tamara Chalabi, author of Late for Tea at the Deer Palace, on tour February 2012
About Late for Tea at the Deer Palace Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 31, 2012) Just ten days after Baghdad’s fall in 2003, Tamara Chalabi arrived in the city after a lifetime in exile—finally entering the homeland she’d known only through stories and her own imagination. Investigating four generations of her family’s history […]
Jane Harris, author of Gillespie and I, on tour February 2012
About Gillespie and I • Paperback: 528 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 31, 2012) From the award-winning author of The Observations comes a beautifully conjured and wickedly sharp tale of art and deception in nineteenth-century Scotland. As she sits in her Bloomsbury home with her two pet birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter recounts the story of her […]
Lynda La Plante, author of the Prime Suspect series, on tour January, February, and March 2012
To celebrate the re-release of the Prime Suspect series, all three books will be on tour. About Prime Suspect • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (January 17, 2012) The moment Jane Tennison takes over Scotland Yard’s investigation into the death of sex worker Della Mornay, two grim facts become immediately clear to her. […]