About Equal of the Sun Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Scribner (June 5, 2012) Legendary women–from Anne Boleyn to Queen Elizabeth to Mary Queen of Scotts—changed the course of history in the royal courts of sixteenth century England, they are celebrated in history books and novels, but few people know of the powerful women in the Muslim world […]
Nicole Galland, author of I, Iago, on tour April/May 2012
About I, Iago • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 24, 2012) From the author of The Fool’s Tale comes a brilliantly-crafted retelling of Shakespeare’s Othello in which the “true” motivations of literature’s greatest villain, Iago, are revealed. Everyone knows Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of friendship and betrayal, love and jealousy: Othello. But the real […]
Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone, on tour May 2012
About The Chaperone • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (June 5, 2012) A captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous actress and an icon for her generation, […]
Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests, on tour May 2012
About The Uninvited Guests • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper (May 1, 2012) With some apprehension, the Torrington family is about to celebrate the twentieth birthday of Emerald, the second of three children. Their housekeeper, Florence, plans an elaborate dinner for the family and a few close friends. Charlotte and her children—the romantically handsome […]
Khanh Ha, author of Flesh, on tour June/July 2012
About Flesh • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Black Heron Press (May 18, 2012) The setting is Tonkin (northern Vietnam) at the turn of the 20th century. A boy, Tai, witnesses the beheading of his father, a notorious bandit, and sets out to recover his head and then to find the man who betrayed his […]
Adriana Trigiani, author of The Shoemaker’s Wife, on tour April 2012
About The Shoemaker’s Wife • Hardcover: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 3, 2012) The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. At the […]
Steve Wiegenstein, author of Slant of Light, on tour May/June 2012
About Slant of Light: A Novel of Utopian Dreams and Civil War • Trade Paperback: 305 pages • Publisher: Blank Slate Press (April, 2012) With the nation moving toward Civil War, James Turner, a charming, impulsive writer and lecturer, Charlotte, his down-to-earth bride, and Cabot, an idealistic Harvard-educated abolitionist, are drawn together in a social experiment deep in […]
Ron Rash, author of The Cove, on tour April/May 2012
About The Cove • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Ecco (April 10, 2012) “Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true; his new novel solidifies his reputation as one of our very finest novelists.” –Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls “I wish the whole world spoke the way […]
Angela Davis-Gardner, author of Butterfly’s Child, on tour April 2012
About Butterfly’s Child Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback (April 10, 2012) When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benji’s true identity as a child born from a […]
Francine du Plessix Gray, author of The Queen’s Lover, on tour April/May 2012
About The Queen’s Lover • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (June 14, 2012) Few figures have as strong a hold on the public’s imagination as Marie Antoinette. Centuries after her death, she remains a fascinating character, whose life, loves, and death have been the subject of numerous books and films. Francine du […]