About Beside Myself Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (January 12, 2016) Six-year-old Helen and Ellie are identical twins, but Helen is smarter, more popular, and their mother’s favorite. Ellie, on the other hand, requires special instruction at school, is friendless, and is punished at every turn. Until they decide to swap places–just for fun, and just […]
Kate Worsley, author of She Rises, on tour in June/July 2013
About She Rises Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (June 18, 2013) A panoramic historical novel of love, adventure, and identity—with an astonishing twist. It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young maid, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember—after all, it stole […]
Emily Perkins, author of The Forrests, on tour August 2012
About The Forrests Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (August 7, 2012) For fans of Zoë Heller and Zadie Smith, a vibrant and vital novel about the way family—with its dysfunctional bonds, sibling love, and rivalry—enduringly defines us. Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From […]
Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones, on tour September, 2011
About Salvage the Bones Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (September 8, 2011) A stunning new voice from the Gulf Coast delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, […]
Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit, on tour May/June 2011
About When God Was a Rabbit Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (May 10, 2011) This is a book about a brother and a sister. It’s a book about best friends, the secrets forged in childhood, and starting over; about triumph and tragedy, and everything in between. More than anything, it’s a book about love […]
Ann Joslin Williams, author of Down From Cascom Mountain, on tour June/July 2011
About Down From Cascom Mountain Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (June 7, 2011) Set in rugged New Hampshire in the aftermath of a fatal accident, this assured debut novel wrestles with grief and desire as a young woman finds her way over the course of one summer. In Down From Cascom Mountain, newlywed Mary Hall […]
Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden, on tour May 2011
About The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 Hardcover: 416 pages (includes 35 color illustrations) Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (March 29, 2011) An inspirational tour de force that proves it’s never too late to be who you might have been. Mary Delany was seventy-two years old when she noticed a petal drop […]
Summer Wood, author of Wrecker, on tour April/May 2011
About Wrecker Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (February 15, 2011) Set amid the giant trees of northern California’s magical Lost Coast, Wrecker is the story of a nearly broken boy who unexpectedly finds a family. After foster-parenting four young siblings a decade ago, Summer Wood tried to imagine a place where kids who are left […]