About The Passing Bells • Paperback: 544 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reissue edition (December 4, 2012) The guns of August are rumbling throughout Europe in the summer of 1914, but war has not yet touched Abingdon Pryory. Here, at the grand home of the Greville family, the parties, dances, and romances play on. Alexandra Greville […]
Jennifer Haigh, author of News From Heaven, on tour January/February 2013
About News From Heaven • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 29, 2013) The bestselling author of Faith and The Condition returns with a collection of unforgettable short stories inspired by a Pennsylvania coal-mining town and the people who call it home. When her iconic novel Baker Towers was published in 2005, it was hailed as a modern classic—”compassionate and powerful . […]
Tara Conklin, author of The House Girl, on tour February 2013
About The House Girl • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 12, 2013) Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine . . . 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on an historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. 1852: Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house […]
Anna Funder, author of All That I Am, on tour January/February 2013
About All That I Am • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 22, 2013) When Hitler seizes power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers suddenly become hunted outlaws overnight. Dora, liberated and fearless; her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller; Ruth; and Ruth’s journalist husband, Hans find refuge in London. There, using secret contacts […]
Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests, on tour January/February 2013
About The Uninvited Guests • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 8, 2013) One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington’s twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors […]
Elizabeth Haynes, author of Into the Darkest Corner, on tour January 2013
About Into the Darkest Corner • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (January 2, 2013) When young, pretty Catherine Bailey meets Lee Brightman, she can’t believe her luck. Gorgeous, charismatic, and a bit mysterious, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. But what begins as flattering attention and spontaneous, passionate sex transforms into raging jealousy, and Catherine […]
Jennifer McMahon, author of The One I Left Behind, on tour January 2012
About The One I Left Behind • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (January 2, 2013) The summer of 1985 changes Reggie’s life. An awkward thirteen-year-old, she finds herself mixed up with the school outcasts. That same summer, a serial killer called Neptune begins kidnapping women. He leaves their severed hands on the […]
Wiley Cash, author of A Land More Kind Than Home, on tour January/February 2013
About A Land More Kind Than Home Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (January 22, 2013) In his phenomenal debut novel—a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town—author Wiley Cash displays a remarkable talent for lyrical, powerfully emotional storytelling. For a curious […]
Margot Berwin, author of Scent of Darkness, on tour February 2013
About Scent of Darkness • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Pantheon (January 29, 2013) In Margot Berwin’s hotly anticipated second novel she takes us somewhere darker, deep into the bayous of Louisiana, to a world of fortune-tellers, soothsayers, and potent elixirs: a magical, seductive story about the power of scent–and what happens when a perfume renders a […]
Susan McBride, author of The Truth About Love and Lightning, on tour February 2013
About The Truth About Love and Lightning • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (February 12, 2013) The Truth About Love and Lighting is a deliciously emotional story of family, forgiveness, love, and magic from Susan McBride. A lie that Gretchen Brink told 40 years ago comes back to haunt her when a tornado […]