by Jenny McPhee Turkish novelist Elif Shafak will present her new novel The Architect’s Apprentice centered around Sinan (1490-1588), architect to the Ottoman Sultan Suleyman in Constantinople, and Canadian novelist Alix Christie will present her first novel, Gutenberg’s Apprentice, recounting the story of the making of Gutenberg’s Bible.
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Maggie Gee and Lyndall Gordon: New Books
by Jenny McPhee Join us for the launch party for Maggie Gee’s Virginia Woolf in Manhattan and Lyndall Gordon’s Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter.
Novelist and Nonfiction Author Daisy Waugh
by Jenny McPhee In a delightful double-whammy, Daisy Waugh talks about her new novel Melting the Snow on Hester Street, the story of a high-society marriage set against the backdrop of the Golden Age of Hollywood. And she’ll give us an ante prima of her book due out in June: I Don’t Know Why She …
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Elif Shafak: Honour
Turkish novelist and journalist Sebnem Senyener interviews Elif Shafak, Turkey’s most widely read female novelist, about her new novel Honour.
When Fact and Fiction Merge: Authors Clare Clark, Lesley Downer, and Kate Williams Discuss Writing Historical Fiction
CLARE CLARK’s latest novel, Beautiful Lies (June, 2012) is set in a Jubilee year-1887- fraught with economic uncertainty, riots, and tabloid scandal mongering. Sound familiar? Praised by Hilary Mantel as “one of those writers who can see into the past and help us feel its texture”, Clark’s novel illuminates both Victorian England and our own …