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cplesley
Jan 26, 20243 min read
New Books Network: Andrea Penrose
New Books Network interview with Andrea Penrose about The Diamond of London, a novel about Lady Hester Stanhope
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cplesley
Jan 12, 20246 min read
Bookshelf, Winter 2024
My bookshelf, Winter 2024: Stephanie Dray, Laurie R. King, Clare McHugh, Andrea Penrose, Kate Quinn and Janie Chang, Deanna Raybourn
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cplesley
Dec 15, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Isa Arsén
New Books Network interview with Isa Arsén, whose debut novel Shoot the Moon looks at the Apollo Space Program
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cplesley
Dec 1, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Alice Sherman Simpson
New Books Network interview with Alice Sherman Simpson, author of The Winthrop Agreement, about a young woman in early 20th century NYC
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cplesley
Oct 27, 20236 min read
Interview with Clara McKenna
Interview with the writer Clara McKenna, author of the Stella and Lyndy historical mysteries and other novels
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cplesley
Oct 20, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Stephanie Cowell
New Books Network interview with author Stephanie Cowell about her latest historical novel, The Boy in the Rain
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cplesley
Oct 12, 20236 min read
Interview with Karen Swan
Interview with Karen Swan, author of The Wild Isle series and many other novels, most recently "Christmas by Candlelight"
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cplesley
Sep 29, 20236 min read
Interview with Heather Redmond
Interview with Heather Redmond, author of numerous mystery novels, most recently "Death of the Sisters"
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cplesley
Sep 22, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Louise Hare
New Books Network interview with Louise Hare, author of the Canary Club mysteries and other novels
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cplesley
Sep 15, 20235 min read
Interview with Kerri Maher
Interview with Kerri Maher about her latest novel, All You Have to Do Is Call
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cplesley
Sep 8, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Andrew Varga
New Books Network interview with Andrew Varga, author of the YA series A Jump in Time
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cplesley
Sep 1, 20236 min read
Interview with Alix Christie
Author interview with Alix Christie, whose "The Shining Mountains" explores family & racial conflict in the 19th-century US Northwest
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cplesley
Aug 25, 20233 min read
New Books Network Interview: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
New Books Network interview with Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, author of "The Witch and the Tsar," a historical fantasy set in 1500s Russia
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cplesley
Aug 18, 20235 min read
Interview with Nan Fischer
Interview with author Nan Fischer about her latest novel, The Book of Silver Linings (Berkley, August 2023)
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cplesley
Aug 4, 20234 min read
Interview with Anika Scott
Author interview with Anika Scott, author of The German Heiress, The Soviet Sisters, and, most recently, Sinners of Starlight City.
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cplesley
Jul 21, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Jennifer Savran Kelly
New Books Network interview with author Jennifer Savran Kelly about her novel Endpapers
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cplesley
Jul 14, 20234 min read
Bookshelf, Summer 2023
Books I have read that are due out in the summer of 2023, as well as those on my bookshelf for reading before September.
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cplesley
Jul 7, 20233 min read
New Books Network Interview: Ginny Kubitz Moyer
Recap of my New Books Network interview with Ginny Kubitz Moyer, whose debut novel "The Seeing Garden" appeared in May 2023.
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cplesley
Jun 23, 20233 min read
New Books Network Interview: Anna Lee Huber
More information about my New Books Network interview with Anna Lee Huber, author of historical fiction featuring Lady Darby & Verity Kent
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cplesley
Jun 14, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Katherine Beutner
New Books Network interview with Katharine Beutner, author of the historical suspense novel Killingly
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