About Crooked Heart • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (July 28, 2015) Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small-time con artist and a young orphan evacuee. When Noel Bostock—aged ten, no family—is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he […]
Laura Purcell, author of Mistress of the Court, on tour September/October
About Mistress of the Court Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Myrmidon Books Ltd (4 Aug. 2015) The second in Laura Purcell’s captivating and acclaimed series of novels chronicling the lives and loves of the consorts and mistresses of Britain’s rash, reckless and ebullient Hanoverian kings. Her first novel, Queen of Bedlam, was published by Myrmidon in the summer […]
Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Race for Paris, on tour August/September 2015
About The Race for Paris • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 11, 2015) Meg Waite Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters, returns with a transportive World War II novel—inspired by real frontline stories—about journalists who, together, race the Allies to occupied Paris for the scoop of their lives. Opening in Normandy […]
Charles Todd, author of An Unwilling Accomplice and A Pattern of Lies, on tour July and August 2015
We have two incredible books on tour from Charles Todd. Follow along with the tour as bloggers review back-to-back books in the Bess Crawford series! About An Unwilling Accomplice • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (May 5, 2015) In this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times bestselling […]
Kim Van Alkemade, author of Orphan #8, on tour July 2015
About Orphan#8 • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 4, 2015) A stunning debut novel of historical fiction set in the forgotten world of New York City’s Jewish orphanages In 1919, four-year-old Rachel Rabinowitz is placed in the Hebrew Infant Home where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research on the children. Dr. Solomon […]
Jill Morrow, author of Newport, on tour July 2015
About Newport • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (July 7, 2015) In a glamorous Newport mansion filled with secrets, a debonair lawyer must separate truth from deception. . . . Spring 1921. The Great War is over, Prohibition is in full swing, the Great Depression is still years away. Wealthy families flock to the […]
Victoria Hislop, author of The Sunrise, on tour July 2015
About The Sunrise • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (July 7, 2015) Internationally bestselling author Victoria Hislop delivers a stirring novel set during the 1974 Cypriot coup d’état that tells the intersecting stories of three families devastated by the conflict. . . Summer 1972—Famagusta is Cyprus’s most desirable tourist destination in the Mediterranean. […]
Carole Giangrande, author of Here Comes the Dreamer, on tour September/October 2015
About Here Comes the Dreamer • Paperback • Publisher: Inanna Publications Alastair Luce is a dreamer, one of three who tell this tale. A Canadian expat in the 1950s, he lives in a New York City suburb with his wife, Nora, a passionate American who misses the excitement of wartime life and finds an outlet — […]
Lisa Chaplin, author of The Tide Watchers, on tour July 2015
About The Tide Watchers • Paperback: 480 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (June 30, 2015) In the winter of 1803, one woman stands between Napoleon and the fall of Great Britain The free-spirited daughter of an English baronet, Lisbeth defies convention by eloping to France. When her husband abandons her, she must find a way to […]
Michael Wallace, author of The Crescent Spy, on tour November 2015
About The Crescent Spy Paperback Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (November 10, 2015) Writing under a man’s name, Josephine Breaux is the finest reporter at Washington’s Morning Clarion. Using her wit and charm, she never fails to get the scoop on the latest Union and Confederate activities. But when a rival paper reveals her true identity, accusations […]