
author on Tour
view datesFebruary 2021
Milk Blood Heat
by Dantiel Moniz“A gorgeous debut” (Lauren Groff) from one of the most exciting discoveries in today’s literary landscape

February 2021
Exit
by Belinda BauerFrom the award-winning author of Snap and Rubbernecker, Exit is the story of Felix Pink, an older man with a group that helps people who have chosen to die with dignity — but there’s been a mistake, and Felix’s life is about to change forever

February 2021
The Good Girls
by Sonia FaleiroBy the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation

February 2021
Eight Days at Yalta
by Diana PrestonMeticulously researched and vividly written, published on the 75th anniversary of the historic Yalta conference, Eight Days at Yalta is the definitive new history of the meeting that reordered the world at the end of World War II

February 2021
Hammer to Fall
by John LawtonThe third Joe Wilderness spy thriller from a master of the genre, moving from icy Finland to tumultuous Cold War Prague, Hammer to Fall is a tale of vodka smuggling and a legendary female Red Army general who is playing a dangerous game

February 2021
Writers & Lovers
by Lily KingAn extraordinary new novel of art, love, and ambition from Lily King, the New York Times bestselling author of Euphoria

author on Tour
view datesMarch 2021
The Committed
by Viet Thanh NguyenThe sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of “the man of two minds” as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalism

March 2021
Endpapers
by Alexander WolffA sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt Wolff

March 2021
Cloudmaker
by Malcolm BrooksFrom the author of the national bestseller Painted Horses, a novel set during the Age of Aviation, in which a young tinkerer and an aspiring pilot building their own airplane unexpectedly come into possession of a rare Lindbergh flight watch owned by a bank robber whose fellow criminals want it back

March 2021
Transient Desires
by Donna LeonIn the landmark thirtieth installment of the bestselling series the New Yorker has called “an unusually potent cocktail of atmosphere and event,” Guido Brunetti is forced to confront an unimaginable crime

March 2021
Stella
by Takis WuergerFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Club comes a new novel of love and betrayal, set in Berlin in 1942

author on Tour
view datesMarch 2021
Every Drop of Blood
by Ed AchornA brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story—Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War

March 2021
Trace Elements
by Donna LeonA woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon’s haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel

March 2021
Three Brothers
by Yan LiankeThe English-language nonfiction debut one of China’s most highly regarded writers, winner of the Franz Kafka Prize and twice finalist for the International Booker Prize, Three Brothers is a beautiful and heartwrenching memoir of the author’s childhood and family life during the Cultural Revolution

March 2021
The Good Killer
by Harry DolanIn the newest thriller from best-selling author Harry Dolan, Sean Tennant stops a deadly mass shooter. And that act of courage may get him killed.

March 2021
She Lover of Death
by Boris AkuninFrom Boris Akunin, the writer who invented the popular Russian crime novel, a gripping tale of a secret suicide society in turn-of-the-century Moscow featuring a naïve young protagonist and the inimitable hero Erast Fandorin

April 2021
House Standoff
by Mike LawsonThe fifteenth novel in Mike Lawson’s acclaimed series follows Joe DeMarco to Wyoming, scene of a storied armed standoff between a defiant cattle rancher and federal agents. But DeMarco doesn’t care about the standoff; this mission is personal for him

April 2021
Maxwell’s Demon
by Steven HallFourteen years after the monumental publication of the international bestseller The Raw Shark Texts, Maxwell’s Demon heralds the triumphant return of Granta Best Young British Novelist Steven Hall

April 2021
Last Chance Texaco
by Rickie Lee JonesA tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning “premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation” (New Yorker), Rickie Lee Jones

April 2021
The Bookseller of Florence
by Ross KingThe bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling captures the excitement and spirit of the Renaissance in this chronicle of the life and work of “the king of the world’s booksellers” and the technological disruption that forever changed the ways knowledge spread

April 2021
Open Water
by Caleb Azumah NelsonA stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso, and finalist for the BBC Short Story Award, twenty-six-year-old writer and photographer Caleb Azumah Nelson

April 2021
Braised Pork
by An YuBeautiful, dreamlike, and utterly intoxicating, Braised Pork is the beguiling debut of an outstandingly talented young writer who is based in China but writes in English

April 2021
The Last Hunt
by Deon MeyerFrom internationally acclaimed crime writer Deon Meyer, a new thriller featuring investigative superstars Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido

April 2021
Synthesizing Gravity
by Kay RyanThe first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States Kay Ryan

April 2021
The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941
by Paul DicksonThe dramatic, untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World War II

May 2021
Down the Highway
by Howard Sounes“Sounes [has] produced [a] fascinating and finely written account of Dylan’s life and times, while managing at the same time to provide interesting evaluations of his music and cultural contribution.” —The New Republic

May 2021
Monkey Boy
by Francisco GoldmanA novel of enormous achievement, Monkey Boy tells the tale of Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer who grapples with his heritage, career, and growing up Guatemalan and Jewish in America

May 2021
Beastly Things
by Donna LeonIn the latest novel of this celebrated series, a dead man is found in a canal, and Brunetti will need all his ingenuity and resources to find out who he is and who killed him.

May 2021
The Indispensables
by Patrick K. O’DonnellFrom the bestselling author of Washington’s Immortals and The Unknowns, an important new chronicle of the American Revolution heralding the heroic actions of the Marbleheaders from Massachusetts

May 2021
The Window Seat
by Aminatta FornaA stunning new collection of essays from the award-winning author of Happiness, The Window Seat explores border crossings both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and the stories that we tell ourselves

June 2021
The Old Enemy
by Henry PorterIn this soaring third installment in internationally bestselling author Henry Porter’s “timely and terrific” (Mick Herron) Firefly series, former MI6 agent Paul Samson must dodge several attempts on his own life in order to expose a shadowy and dangerous enemy of western democracy

June 2021
When the Stars Begin to Fall
by Theodore Roosevelt Johnson IIIA bold, thought-provoking pathway to the national solidarity that could, finally, address the ills of racism in America

June 2021
Hard Like Water
by Yan LiankeFrom a visionary, world-class writer, dubbed “China’s most controversial novelist” by the New Yorker, a rip-roaring adventure story and biting portrayal of the rise and fall of two young communist revolutionaries who fall in love and come to power during China’s Cultural Revolution

June 2021
Resistance
by Val McDermidThe first graphic novel from international bestselling crime novelist Val McDermid, Resistance is the story of a mysterious illness that sweeps through a British music festival and beyond, and the journalist who must rush to find the source of the outbreak before it becomes a full-blown pandemic

June 2021
The Killing Hills
by Chris OffuttAcclaimed literary author Chris Offutt now delivers a breakout novel — The Killing Hills, a literary crime novel set in the Kentucky hills in which an Army CID agent on leave ends up investigating a murder and setting the secretive holler clans on edge

July 2021
The Brilliant Abyss
by Helen ScalesA marine biologist vividly brings alive the extraordinary ecosystem of the deep ocean—a realm about which we know less than we do about the Moon—and shows how protecting rather than exploiting it will benefit mankind

July 2021
The Wonder Test
by Michelle RichmondNew York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond introduces a tough and spirited new protagonist, FBI Agent Lina Connerly, in this exhilarating race to save Silicon Valley teens from their own parents’ ambition and greed

July 2021
Magma
by Thora HjortleifsdottirA compulsive, propulsive debut about a young woman’s haunting experience of love, abuse, and sex in an era of pornification by one of Iceland’s most provocative writers