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 […]
Ellen Horan, author of 31 Bond Street, on tour July 2010
About 31 Bond Street Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Harper; 1 edition (March 30, 2010) In the vein of The Alienist, 31 Bond Street transports readers back to New York City of the 19th century with an unending series of suspenseful twists and turns. When the brutally stabbed and nearly decapitated body of a society dentist […]
Frank Delaney, author of Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show, on tour March/April 2010
About Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Random House (February 23, 2010) “PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY on Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show “This hybrid quest saga, bildungsroman, and grassroots view of Ireland in its post–civil war era is immersive and enjoyable, and it showcases Delaney’s talent for inventive metaphor, which he manipulates with an expert hand.”” […]