About Under the Wide and Starry Sky Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (January 21, 2014) From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny. At the age of thirty-five, Fanny van de Grift […]
Anish Majumdar, author of The Isolation Door, on tour February 2014
About The Isolation Door Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Ravana Press (February 4, 2014) From an award-winning journalist comes a haunting debut novel examining the inner world of the mentally ill and those within their gravitational pull. Neil Kapoor, 23, is desperate to create a life beyond the shadow of his mother’s schizophrenia. Years of […]
Anne Leigh Parrish, author of Our Love Could Light the World, on tour January 2014
About Our Love Could Light the World Paperback: 202 pages Publisher: She Writes Press (May 23, 2013) You know the Dugans. They’re that scrappy family down the street. Their five children run free, they never clean up after their dog, and the husband hasn’t earned a cent in years. You wouldn’t want them for neighbors, but from […]
Jennifer Cody Epstein, author of The Gods of Heavenly Punishment, on tour January/February 2014
About The Gods of Heavenly Punishment Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (January 13, 2014) One summer night in prewar Japan, eleven-year-old Billy Reynolds takes snapshots at his parent’s dinner party. That same evening his father Anton–a prominent American architect–begins a torrid affair with the wife of his master carpenter. A world away in […]
Rachel Joyce, author of Perfect, on tour December 2013/January 2014
About Perfect Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Random House (January 7, 2014) A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of Mark Haddon, Louise Erdrich, and John Irving, Perfect tells the story of a young boy who is thrown into the murky, difficult realities of the adult world with far-reaching consequences. Byron Hemmings wakes to a morning that […]
Rebecca Walker, author of Adé, on tour October/November 2013
About Adé: A Love Story Hardcover: 112 pages Publisher: Little A / New Harvest (October 29, 2013) Known worldwide for her brilliant, frank memoirs, Rebecca Walker returns with a poetic, lushly written debut novel that is sure to garner major attention. Exploring the themes of memory, longing, passion, and loss, Walker gives us the story of […]
Jason Mott, author of The Returned, on tour September/October 2013
About The Returned Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Harlequin MIRA (August 27, 2013) Jason Mott’s debut novel, The Returned (Harlequin MIRA; September 2013; $24.95 U.S./$27.95 CAN.), tells the haunting story of the world turned upside down when the departed come back from death, bringing joy and agony to those they left behind. A riveting high concept wrapped in […]
Jenni Fagan, author of The Panopticon, on tour August/September 2013
About The Panopticon Publisher: Hogarth (July 23, 2013) Pages: 304 As THE PANOPTICON opens, we meet Anais Hendricks, a few months shy of her sixteenth birthday. Anais sits in the back of a police car in Midlothian, Scotland, headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders. She can’t remember the events that led her there, […]
Jamie Ford, author of Songs of Willow Frost, on tour October 2013
About Songs of Willow Frost Publisher: Ballantine Books (Sept 10, 2013) Pages: 352 From Jamie Ford, the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls—a boy with dreams for his […]
Austin Ratner, author of In the Land of the Living, on tour August/September 2013
About In the Land of the Living Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books (March 12, 2013) “A spiky tale of family…The characters are compelling, and the bonds between these brothers and fathers and sons are convincing and raw.” — Publishers Weekly The Auberons are a lovably neurotic, infernally intelligent family who love and hate each other […]