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.”” […]
Myrlin A. Hermes, author of The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet, on tour March/April 2010
About The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (January 26, 2010) A Divinity scholar at Wittenberg University, Horatio prides himself on his ability to argue both sides of any intellectual debate but is himself a skeptic, never fully believing in any philosophy. That is, until […]
Vanitha Sankaran, author of Watermark, on tour April 2010
About Watermark Watermark is an atmospheric and compelling debut novel about the search for identity, the power of self-expression, and the value of the written word. The daughter of a papermaker in 1320s France, Auda has an ability to read and write that comes from a place of need. Silenced, she finds hope and opportunity […]
Lynn Cullen, author of The Creation of Eve, on tour March 2010
About Lynn Lynn Cullen is the author of the young adult novel I Am Rembrandt’s Daughter, a 2007 Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, and an ALA Best Book of 2008. Her previous award-winning novels and picture books for children include the critically acclaimed Moi & Marie Antoinette, The Backyard Ghost, and The Mightiest Heart, for […]
Ben Kane, author of The Forgotten Legion, on tour January 2010
About Ben I’ve always had a passion for history, and military history in particular. As a boy, I devoured anything to do with soldiers and war, from the Romans to the Vikings and Crusaders. More modern conflicts weren’t excluded either, so I read all about the Napoleonic wars, the American civil war and World Wars […]