About The Moonlight Palace Paperback: 174 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (October 1, 2014) Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange for handing over […]
Lynne Hugo, author of A Matter of Mercy, on tour September 2014
About A Matter of Mercy Paperback: 278 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press (August 1, 2014) Caroline Marcum thought she’d escaped the great mistake of her life by leaving Wellfleet harbor, but is forced to face it when she returns, reluctantly, to care for her dying mother. Ridley Neal put his past-and his prison term-behind him to return home […]
Marie-Helene Bertino, author of 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas, on tour August 2014
About 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Crown (August 5, 2014) 2 A.M. AT THE CAT’S PAJAMAS begins on a quiet morning in a Philadelphia apartment the day before Christmas Eve, where we meet the precocious and smart-mouthed nine-year-old Madeleine Altimari. Madeleine’s mother has recently died, and her father is still lost in his […]
Jon Enfield, author of The New Men, on tour July/August 2014
About The New Men Print Length: 303 pages Publisher: Wayzgoose Press (May 14, 2014) For us, the new man, he is one of two things. First, he is the new worker, a man we instruct and investigate until his probation is complete. But also he is an idea. In the foundry, they make parts. On the line, […]
Ayelet Waldman, author of Love & Treasure, on tour June/July 2014
About Love & Treasure Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (April 1, 2014) A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War. In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train […]
Katharine Britton, author of Little Island, on tour May/June 2014
About Little Island Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade (September 3, 2013) Grace Flowers By the water Have fun! These are Grace’s mother’s last words – left behind on a note. A note that Grace interprets as instructions for her memorial service. And so her far-flung clan will gather at their inn on Little Island, Maine, to […]
Doug Cooper, author of Outside In, on tour April/May 2014
About Outside In Hardcover: 253 pages Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press (August 13, 2013) From Memorial Day until the student workers and tourists leave in the fall, the island community of Put-In-Bay, Ohio, thrives on alcohol, drugs, sexual experimentation, and any other means of forgetting responsibilities. To Brad Shepherd–recently forced out of his job as a junior […]
Carole Giangrande, author of Midsummer, on tour May/June 2014
About Midsummer • Paperback: 150 pages • Publisher: Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series (April 2014) All her life, Joy’s been haunted by a man she’s never met — her visionary grandfather, the artist Lorenzo. At work on digging a New York subway tunnel, his pickaxe struck the remains of an ancient Dutch trading ship — and a vision lit […]
Tessa Hadley, author of Clever Girl, on tour March 2014
About Clever Girl • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper (March 4, 2014) Like Alice Munro and Colm Tóibín, Tessa Hadley possesses the remarkable ability to transform the mundane into the sublime—an eye for the beauty, innocence, and irony of ordinary lives that elevates domestic fiction to literary art. In Clever Girl, she offers the indelible story of one woman’s […]
James Scott, author of The Kept, on tour January 2014
About The Kept • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 7, 2014) In the winter of 1897, Elspeth Howell treks across miles of snow and ice to the isolated farmstead in upstate New York where she and her husband have raised their five children. Her midwife’s salary is tucked into the toes of her boots, and […]