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 […]
Kathy Hepinstall, author of Blue Asylum, on tour April 2012
About Blue Asylum • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 10, 2012) Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, Virginia plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is put on trial and convicted of madness. It is the only reasonable explanation the court can see for her willful behavior, so she is sent away to […]
March is Maisie Month Blog Tour
To celebrate the release of Jacqueline Winspear’s Elegy for Eddie, we’re planning a blog tour for the whole Maisie Dobbs series. Here’s the schedule for the tour: March 5th – 9th – The first six books in the Maisie Dobbs series March 12th – 16th – The Mapping of Love and Death March19th – 23rd […]
Jetta Carleton, author of Clair de Lune, on tour March 2012
About Clair de Lune • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 6, 2012) An unexpected treasure: A long-lost novel of innocence threatened, by the author of the beloved classic The Moonflower Vine The time: 1941, at the cusp of America’s entry into World War II. The place: southwest Missouri, on the edge of […]
Lauren Willig, author of The Garden Intrigue, on tour February/March 2012
About The Garden Intrigue Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult (February 16, 2012) Just in time for the post-Valentine’s Day chocolate hangover, THE GARDEN INTRIGUE is the latest novel in the nationally bestselling Pink Carnation series by RITA Award winner Lauren Willig (Dutton, On sale: February 16, 2012). In this ninth installment, long-time readers and newcomers alike […]