About Let Me Be Like Water Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Melville House (August 14, 2018) ‘Intimate, ruthless, tender: this book is like medicine for the soul.’ Nina George, author of The Little Paris Bookshop A beautifully poignant and poetic debut about love, loss, friendship, and ultimately, starting over. Twenty-something Holly has moved to Brighton to escape. But now […]
Tom Malmquist, author of IN EVERY MOMENT WE ARE STILL ALIVE, on tour January/February 2018
About In Every Moment We Are Still Alive Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Melville House (January 30, 2018) A prize-winning, bestselling debut of love, loss, and family–based on a true story–that’s winning readers around the world. When Tom’s heavily pregnant girlfriend Karin is rushed to the hospital, doctors are able to save the baby. But they are helpless […]
Ladee Hubbard, author of The Talented Ribkins, on tour August/September
About The Talented Ribkins Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Melville House (August 8, 2017) Winner of the 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award At seventy-two, Johnny Ribkins shouldn’t have such problems: He’s got one week to come up with the money he stole from his mobster boss or it’s curtains for Johnny. What may or may […]
Lynda Schuster, author of Dirty Wars and Polished Silver, on tour August 2017
About Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Melville House (July 18, 2017) From a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent, an exuberant memoir of life, love, and transformation on the frontlines of conflicts around the world Growing up in 1970s Detroit, Lynda Schuster […]
Kate Hamer, author of THE DOLL FUNERAL, on tour August/September 2017
About The Doll Funeral Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Melville House (August 15, 2017) “[Evokes] both Jeanette Winterson and Ian McEwan . . . an elegiac and uplifting novel about the indissoluble bonds between mothers and daughters, and a reminder of how the imagination can set you free.” — The Guardian On Ruby’s thirteenth birthday, a […]
Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat, on tour February/March 2016
About The Girl in the Red Coat Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Melville House (February 16, 2016) Costa Book Award for First Novel finalist Dagger Award finalist Newly single mom Beth has one constant, gnawing worry: that her dreamy eight-year-old daughter, Carmel, who has a tendency to wander off, will one day go missing. And then one day, […]