About Blade of the Samurai Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Minotaur Books (July 15, 2014) .June, 1565: Master ninja Hiro Hattori receives a pre-dawn visit from Kazu, a fellow shinobi working undercover at the shogunate. Hours before, the shogun’s cousin, Saburo, was stabbed to death in the shogun’s palace. The murder weapon: Kazu’s personal dagger. Kazu says […]
Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly, authors of The Tilted World, on tour June 2014
About The Tilted World • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (June 10, 2014) Set against the backdrop of the historic flooding of the Mississippi River, The Tilted World is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a woman who find unexpected love, from Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author […]
Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of One Night in Winter, on tour May 2014
About One Night in Winter • Hardcover: 480 pages • Publisher: Harper (May 6, 2014) The acclaimed novelist and prizewinning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the consequences of forbidden love in this heartbreaking epic, inspired by a true story that unfolds in Stalin’s Russia during the bleak days after World War II. A jubilant Moscow is celebrating the Soviet […]
Emma Campion, author of A Triple Knot, on tour July 2014
About A Triple Knot Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Broadway Books (July 8, 2014) The critically acclaimed author of The King’s Mistress brings another fascinating woman from history to life in an enthralling story of political intrigue, personal tragedy, and illicit love. Joan of Kent, the renowned beauty and niece of King Edward III, seems blessed with a life of […]
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 […]
Francine Prose, author of Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, on tour April/May 2014
About Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 • Print Length: 448 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 22, 2014) Paris in the 1920s. It is a city of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent, where louche jazz venues like the Chameleon Club draw expats, artists, libertines, and parvenus looking to indulge their true selves. It is at the […]
Jacqueline Winspear, author of Leaving Everything Most Loved, on tour April 2014
About Leaving Everything Most Loved • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 8, 2014) London, 1933. Two months after Usha Pramal’s body is discovered in the waters of a city canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs for help. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, but evidence indicates […]
Hazel Gaynor, author of The Girl Who Came Home, on tour April 2014
About The Girl Who Came Home • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 1, 2014) A voyage across the ocean becomes the odyssey of a lifetime for a young Irish woman. . . . Ireland, 1912 . . . Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in […]
Janie Chang, author of Three Souls, on tour February/March 2014
About Three Souls • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 25, 2014) An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice and undying love We have three souls, or so I’d been told. But only in death could I confirm this…. So begins the haunting and captivating tale, set in 1935 China, of the […]
Kathleen Tessaro, author of The Perfume Collector, on tour February 2014
About The Perfume Collector • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 4, 2014) London, 1955: Grace Monroe is a fortunate young woman. Despite her sheltered upbringing in Oxford, her recent marriage has thrust her into the heart of London’s most refined and ambitious social circles. However, playing the role of the sophisticated socialite her husband would like […]