About The Queen’s Lover Paperback: 624 pages Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (March 8, 2011) Catherine de Valois, daughter of the French king Charles VI, is born into troubled times. Though she is brought up in a royal court, it is a stormy and unstable environment. Before she is out of her teens, Catherine is […]
M. L. Malcolm, author of Heart of Deception, on tour April 2011
About Heart of Deception • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (April 5, 2011) A man of many contradictions, Leo Hoffman is a Hungarian national with a French passport, a wealthy businessman with no visible means of support, and a devoted father who hasn’t seen his daughter in years. He is also a […]
Kenneth Wishnia, author of The Fifth Servant, on tour February 2011
About The Fifth Servant • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (February 8, 2011) In 1592, Prague is a relatively safe refuge for Jews who live within the gated walls of its ghetto. But the peace is threatened when a young Christian girl is found with her throat slashed in a Jewish […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for January 2011
Does your book club love historical fiction? If so, have we got a book for you! Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King chronicles the life of Margaret of Scotland, a contemporary of the infamous Lady Macbeth, and a woman destined for sainthood. Margaret, a young Saxon princess, is shipwrecked with her family on the coast […]
Michael David Lukas, author of The Oracle of Stamboul, on tour February/March 2011
About The Oracle of Stamboul • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper (February 8, 2011) Late in the summer of 1877, as Tsar Alexander II’s Royal Cavalry descends on the defenseless Ottoman outpost of Constanta, a flock of purple and white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town, and Eleonora Cohen is ushered into the world […]
Pamela Schoenewaldt, author of When We Were Strangers, on tour January/February 2011
About When We Were Strangers • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (January 25, 2011) “The people as real as your own family, and the tale realistic enough to be any American’s.” —Nancy E. Turner, author of These is My Words A moving, powerful, and evocative debut novel, When We Were Strangers […]
Christie Dickason, author of The King’s Daughter, on tour December 2010
About The King’s Daughter • Paperback: 480 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (November 23, 2010) The daughter of James I, the Princess Elizabeth would not be merely her father’s pawn in the royal marriage market. The court of James I is a dangerous place, with factions led by warring cousins Robert Cecil and […]
Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King on tour December, 2010
About Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (December 7, 2010) Queen Hereafter chronicles the life of Margaret of Scotland, a contemporary of the infamous Lady Macbeth, and a woman destined for sainthood. Margaret, a young Saxon princess, is shipwrecked with her family on the coast of Scotland and […]
Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz, authors of The Miracles of Prato, on tour August 2010
About The Miracles of Prato • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 2, 2010) Italy, 1456. The Renaissance is in glorious bloom. A Carmelite monk, the great artist Fra Filippo Lippi acts as chaplain to the nuns of the Convent Santa Margherita. It is here that he encounters the greatest temptation of his […]
Emma Campion, author of The King’s Mistress, on tour July 2010
About The King’s Mistress Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Crown (July 6, 2010) History has not been kind to Alice Perrers, the notorious mistress of King Edward II. Scholars and contemporaries alike have deemed her a manipulative woman who used her great beauty & sensuality to take advantage of an aging and increasingly senile king. But who […]