Nov 25, 2013 | Book Store Events
Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed author whose works include Schindler’s List, which won the Booker Prize in 1982, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates, all of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, reads from and discusses...
Nov 18, 2013 | Book Store Events
Science writer and essayist Katy Butler discusses her family memoir Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death. When doctors refused to disable her aged, very ill father’s paceĀmaker, sentencing him to a protracted and agonizing death,...
Nov 11, 2013 | Book Store Events
Jamie Ford, the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, reads from and discusses his new novel Songs of Willow Frost. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two...
Nov 4, 2013 | Book Store Events
Natasha Solomons, the bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, reads from and discusses her new novel The Gallery of Vanished Husbands. London, 1958. It’s the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague’s conservative Jewish community where...
Oct 28, 2013 | Book Store Events
Award-winning poet Jason Mott reads from and discusses his debut novel The Returned. With spare, elegant prose and searing emotional depth, Mott’s book explores timeless questions of faith and morality, love and responsibility. A spellbinding and stunning debut,...