The most powerful words in English are
"Tell me a story"
Pat Conroy
Upcoming Books and Recently Published
Man on Fire
Publisher Nan A. Talese Books/Knopf, 2019 Pat Conroy once observed that Thomas Wolfe, one of his early literary heroes, “writes like a man on fire who does not have a clue how not to be on fire.” It’s a wonderful line, a visceral description of a perf …
The Wartime Sisters
Publisher St. Martin Press, January 22, 2019 “It was easy sometimes to forget about the war. . . It was easy, much too easy to think only of herself and the smaller war that waited on the other side of her sister’s front door.” Ruth and Millie have nev …
The Perfect Liar
Publisher St. Martin’s Press, January 15, 2019 In the vein of domestic psychological thrillers like The Woman in the Window and The Girl on the Train, Thomas Christopher Greene’s THE PERFECT LIAR is a riveting and suspenseful story about a newly marrie …
The Favorite Daughter
Publisher Berkley/Penguin Random House, June 4, 2019 New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry returns to the Lowcountry setting of The Bookshop at Water’s End with a novel of one woman’s homecoming–and the family memories that have shape …
The Good Detective
Publisher Putnam, March 19, 2019 Detective P.T. Marsh is up against the toughest case of his career. And he’s pretty sure he killed the prime suspect. P.T. was a rising star on the police force of Mason Falls, Georgia–until his wife and young son died …
The Falling Woman
Publisher Algonquin Press, 2019 The Falling Woman weaves the interconnecting stories of Charlie Radford, an ambitious airline accident investigator but a failed pilot, and Erin Geraghty, the rumored but real survivor of airline disaster who disappears …
Haunting Paris
Publisher Nan A. Talese/Knopf, June 18, 2019 A timeless story of love and loss is transformed when a bereaved pianist discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover’s possessions, launching her headlong into a decades-old search for a child who van …
The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World
Windows on the World, the Twin Towers and the Restoration of New York Publisher Abrams Books, 2019 On the streets of Manhattan, you see it around you; the people who move briskly with purpose and the ones who can barely take a step; it is a city of exp …
The Emancipation of Evan Walls
Publisher Koehler Books, 2019 Evan Walls has been married to his wife Izzy for thirteen years, yet she knows nothing about half of his life. That part of him he put away long ago and they have lived peacefully alongside the dead spot it has left in th …
Snippets and Accolades
The Good Detective receives a Starred Review from Booklist in their January 2019 issue.
AudioFile Magazine has given Patricia Hampl’s narration of THE ART OF THE WASTED DAY, an Earphones Award in their October/November 2018 issue.
Garden & Gun Magazine selects Becoming Mrs. Lewis (see it here…) on its October 2018 Reading List saying: “Celebrated the world over for The Chronicles of Narnia, the British author C.S. Lewis has long fascinated scholars and book lovers. Now, author Patti Callahan shares a lesser-known part of his life in an historic novel based on his real-life relationship with Joy Davidman, a New York poet whom Lewis called “my whole world.””
Becoming Mrs. Lewis is the number 5 on The Globe and Mail (Canada) historical fiction bestsellers list as of October 26, 2018.
Library Journal – September 9, 2018 – Starred Review for Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan…
Publishers Weekly – August 13, 2018 – Starred Review for Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
School Library Journal – September 2018 – Starred Review for Come November by Katrin Van Dam
“…With an engaging plot premise, a strong, flawed heroine and a touch of romance, this book will fly off the shelf…”
At a time when introducing a new writer into the crowded field of mystery writers is hard (some feel it is nearly impossible!), John Hart, NY Times bestselling author and the only writer in history to win the best novel Edgar Award for consecutive novels, has given a big thumbs up to John McMahan’s The Good Detective.
“First fiction is dangerous business…” Click here…
Meg Clayton’s BEAUTIFUL EXILES receives a Booklist Starred review on July 1, 2018!
It was also an Editors’ Choice of the Historical Novel Society.
Patti Callahan signed 150 advance reading copies of her highly anticipated fall novel BECOMING MRS. LEWIS, at Book Expo America a gathering of booksellers from around the country that took place at the Javits Center in New York on May 30/18. Her novel was selected by Publishers Marketplace as one of this year’s “Buzz Books”.
Nathan Lents has published an essay connected to his forthcoming book Human Errors (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 1, 2018) in the Wall Street Journal titled “The Botch of the Human Body.” Click here to see it…
Congratulations to Patti Callahan Henry! Her latest novel THE BOOKSHOP AT WATER’S END is one of the three fiction finalists for SIBA’S 2018 Southern Book Prize in the highly competitive category of novels about Women and Family…
Common Good Bookstore hosted the launch publication reading of THE ART OF THE WASTED DAY by Patricia Hampl in St. Paul.
Nearly 250 readers braved a historic April 16/18 blizzard to attend the event which took place at Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel of Macalester College. Her agent Marly Rusoff, who nearly thirty years ago served as a bridesmaid at Hampl’s wedding to her late husband Terrence William, to whom the book is dedicated, flew in from NY to introduce Hampl to those gathered.
Patricia Hampl’s THE ART OF THE WASTED DAY receives three Starred reviews before its April 17, 2018 publication
Robin Oliveira’s THE WINTER SISTERS is listed in the February 25, 2018 issue of USA Today as one of five “don’t miss” titles…