About The Passing Bells • Paperback: 544 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reissue edition (December 4, 2012) The guns of August are rumbling throughout Europe in the summer of 1914, but war has not yet touched Abingdon Pryory. Here, at the grand home of the Greville family, the parties, dances, and romances play on. Alexandra Greville […]
Anna Funder, author of All That I Am, on tour January/February 2013
About All That I Am • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 22, 2013) When Hitler seizes power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers suddenly become hunted outlaws overnight. Dora, liberated and fearless; her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller; Ruth; and Ruth’s journalist husband, Hans find refuge in London. There, using secret contacts […]
Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests, on tour January/February 2013
About The Uninvited Guests • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 8, 2013) One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington’s twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors […]
Charles Todd, author of An Unmarked Grave, on tour January 2013
About An Unmarked Grave • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (January 2, 2013) Even deadlier than the bloody engagements on the battle-scarred fields of France, the Spanish influenza epidemic in the spring of 1918 is bringing hundreds of new patients to World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford. But war and disease […]
Maryanne O’Hara, author of Cascade, on tour December 2012
About Cascade • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Viking Adult (August 16, 2012) 1935: In a small town fighting for its survival, a conflicted new wife and promising artist finds herself caught in the eternal tug between duty and desire Desdemona Hart Spaulding was an up-and-coming Boston artist when she married in haste and settled in the small, once-fashionable theater […]
Jill Dawson, author of Lucky Bunny, on tour November 2012
About Lucky Bunny Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 30, 2012) Daring, clever, and alluring, Queenie Dove has spent a lifetime developing the skills of an accomplished thief. Born into a criminal family in London’s East End during the Great Depression, and trained by a group of women shoplifters during the Blitz, Queenie soon graduates from […]
Clare Clark, author of Beautiful Lies, on tour September/October 2012
About Beautiful Lies • Hardcover: 512 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (September 18, 2012) “A stirring and seductive novel.”—Economist London 1887. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year to make something of herself. A self-proclaimed Chilean heiress educated in Paris, she is torn between poetry and the new art […]
Adriana Trigiani, author of The Shoemaker’s Wife, on tour August/September 2012
About The Shoemaker’s Wife • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (August 21, 2012) The fateful first meeting of Enza and Ciro takes place amid the haunting majesty of the Italian Alps at the turn of the last century. Still teenagers, they are separated when Ciro is banished from his village and sent to hide in New York’s Little […]
Tina Connolly, author of Ironskin, on tour October 2012
About Ironskin Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (October 2, 2012) After establishing herself with her short fiction, Tina Connolly becomes a novelist to watch with her debut IRONSKIN (Tor Hardcover; $24.99; On-sale October 2, 2012)—a loose re-imagining of Jane Eyre set in the aftermath of a Great War between the humans and fey. […]
Mingmei Yip, author of Skeleton Women, on tour September 2012
About Skeleton Women Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Kensington (May 29, 2012) Skeleton Women is a Chinese phrase for femmes fatales. This story is about three of them — Camilla, a nightclub singer who has been forced to become a spy, Shadow a magician who jumps naked off a tall building, and a gender-ambiguous gossip columnist. All must scheme […]