About North of Here Hardcover Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (March 1, 2016) Many may dream of a simpler life in the north woods, far away from the complications of the modern world. But in her absorbing and uncompromising second novel, North of Here (Lake Union; March 1, 2016), Laurel Saville reveals the dark side of such a life […]
Deborah Mantella, author of My Sweet Vidalia, on tour February 2016
About My Sweet Vidalia Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Turner (October 6, 2015) On July 4, 1955, in rural Georgia, an act of violence threatens the life of Vidalia Lee Kandal Jackson’s pre-born daughter. Despite the direst of circumstances, the spirit of the lost child refuses to leave her ill-equipped young mother’s side. For as long as she […]
Jon McGoran, author of Drift, on tour July/August 2013
About Drift Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Forge Books; 1 edition (July 9, 2013) When Philadelphia narcotics detective Doyle Carrick loses his mother and step-father within weeks of each other, he gains a twenty-day suspension for unprofessional behavior and instructions to lay low at the unfamiliar house he’s inherited in rural Pennsylvania. Feeling restless and out of place, […]
Allison Lynn, author of The Exiles, on tour July 2013
About The Exiles Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Little A / New Harvest (July 2, 2013) Nate, a mid-level investment banker on Wall Street, and his longtime girlfriend Emily can no longer afford their cramped apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Tired of trying to keep up with their jet-set friends, they jump at a job offer for […]
Paulo Coelho, author of Manuscript Found in Accra, on tour April 2013
About Manuscript Found in Accra Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Knopf (April 2, 2013) The latest novel from the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Alchemist. There is nothing wrong with anxiety? Although we cannot control God’s time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible. Or […]
Jenny Davidson, author of The Magic Circle, on tour April/May 2013
About The Magic Circle Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: New Harvest; 1 edition (March 26, 2013) Three young female academics design daring, boundary-pushing games—until one of them goes too far, in this contemporary thriller by an acclaimed Columbia University professor In the genre-bending literary thriller THE MAGIC CIRCLE, by Columbia University professor Jenny Davidson (Amazon Publishing/New Harvest, on […]
Sandra Newman, author of The Western Lit Survival Kit, on tour January 2012
About The Western Lit Survival Kit: An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Gotham (January 3, 2012) A side-splitting tour that makes it a blast to read the Western literary canon, from the ancient Greeks to the Modernists. To many, the Great Books evoke angst: the complicated Renaissance dramas we […]
People Tell Me Things: Stories by David Finkle on tour November, 2011
About People Tell Me Things: Stories by David Finkle Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Nthposition Press (October 4, 2011) Authors, publishers, reporters, musicians, actors, and artists make up the fabric of the “scene” that is New York City. David Finkle has been a part of this world for years as a critic and writer for newspapers and magazines—a […]
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 […]