About Those Rosy Hours at Mazandaran Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Ghostwoods Books (February 14, 2015) It begins with a rumour, an exciting whisper. Anything to break the tedium of the harem for the Shah’s eldest daughter. People speak of a man with a face so vile it would make a hangman faint, but a voice as sweet […]
Charles Todd, author of Hunting Shadows, on tour January 2015
About Hunting Shadows • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow; First Edition edition (January 21, 2014) In the latest mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd, Inspector Ian Rutledge is summoned to the quiet, isolated Fen country to solve a series of seemingly unconnected murders before the killer strikes again August 1920. […]
Jennifer Robson, author of After the War is Over, on tour January 2015
About After the War is Over • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (January 6, 2015) The International bestselling author of Somewhere in France returns with her sweeping second novel—a tale of class, love, and freedom—in which a young woman must find her place in a world forever changed. After four years as […]
Alix Christie, author of Gutenberg’s Apprentice, on tour September/October 2014
About Gutenberg’s Apprentice • Hardcover: 416 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 23, 2014) An enthralling literary debut that evokes one of the most momentous events in history, the birth of printing in medieval Germany—a story of invention, intrigue, and betrayal. Youthful, ambitious Peter Schoeffer is on the verge of professional success as a scribe in Paris […]
Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, authors of GI Brides, on tour September 2014
About GI Brides • Paperback: 592 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (September 2, 2014) They left everything behind to follow their hearts. . . . True stories that illuminate the experiences of British war brides in America after World War II American soldiers stationed in the UK came away winning more than […]
Yangsze Choo, author of The Ghost Bride, on tour August 2014
About The Ghost Bride • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (August 5, 2014) A wondrous coming-of-age story infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twists Malaya, 1893 Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt Chinese family, has few prospects. But fate intervenes when she receives a proposal from […]
Victor Bevine, author of Certainty, on tour October/November 2014
About Certainty Paperback, 358 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (October 21, 2014) When you’re fighting an injustice, can it be wrong to do what’s right? Inspired by the scandalous true story that shocked a nation at the close of WWI. With America’s entry into World War 1, the population of Newport, Rhode Island seems to […]
Jim Snowden, author of The Summer of Long Knives, on tour September/October 2014
About The Summer of Long Knives Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Booktrope Editions (July 26, 2013) In the summer of 1936, the racial and political climate in Munich are growing tense, and Kommisar Rolf Wundt and his wife Klara are increasingly desperate to leave Nazi Germany while they still can. But when a member of the […]
Joanna Hickson, author of The Agincourt Bride, on tour August 2014
About The Agincourt Bride • Paperback: 592 pages • Publisher: Harper 360 (August 19, 2014) Her beauty fuelled a war. Her courage captured a king. Her passion would launch the Tudor dynasty. When her own first child is tragically still-born, the young Mette is pressed into service as a wet-nurse at the court of the mad king, Charles […]
Liz Rosenberg, author of The Moonlight Palace, on tour October 2014
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 […]