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 […]
Jan Shapin, author of A Snug Life Somewhere, on tour February 2014
About A Snug Life Somewhere • Paperback: 294 pages • Publisher: Cambridge Books (April, 2014) A Snug Life Somewhere is about Penny Joe Copper, daughter of a roustabout shingle weaver, who is caught up in a 1916 union tragedy known as the Everett Massacre. Her brother Horace is killed, as is the cousin of a radical organizer, Gabe. When […]
Michele Zackheim, author of Last Train to Paris, on tour January 2014
About Last Train to Paris • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Europa Editions (January 7, 2014) Inspired by the story of a distant cousin who was murdered in Paris in 1937, award-winning author Michele Zackheim’s Last Train to Paris is a gripping epic about a half-Jewish female reporter from Nevada who writes for the Paris Courier in the 1930’s. […]
Jane Sanderson, author of Netherwood & Ravenscliffe, on tour January 2014
About Netherwood • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 31, 2013) Two remarkably different worlds—one of wealth and privilege, the other of poverty and desperation—are about to collide in one shattering moment in this mesmerizing tale of high drama, forbidden love, and families fighting to hold on to what they have Upstairs: Lord Netherwood, a […]
April Smith, author of A Star for Mrs. Blake, on tour January/February 2014
About A Star for Mrs. Blake Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (January 14, 2014) The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally […]