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Miscellany

Previously Unpublished Hemingway Story

Having just celebrated the 74th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris, another celebration of Paris took place earlier this month when The Strand Magazine ran a previously unpublished story by Ernest Hemingway with post-war Paris as the focal point. A Room on the Garden Side is “an earthy, poignant sketch…

BookTribAugust 28, 2018

Miscellany

Cook Your Way Around the World

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content, including this article on the best cookbooks featuring foods from around the world. The best part of traveling is getting to explore a new place and embrace the food, people, and culture. The worst part? It can be expensive. So this season we’re…

BookishJuly 26, 2017

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Discover How One Woman Transformed Costume Design in the Golden Age of Hollywood

This is the story of how Marianne Dunat left her small village in the south of France, arrived in Hollywood in 1919 thinking she would stay for a year, and wound up carving out a magnificent career as a fashion designer at a time when costume design started taking off…

BookTribNovember 19, 2021

Nonfiction

BookTrib Review: Jonathan White Captures the ‘Spirit of the Ocean’ in ‘Tides’

Something unexpected will happen upon reading the chapters of this captivating book. Your nostrils will feel the iodine-laden air brushing as the winds break like waves upon the shores of your assumptions. They will jolt into wakeness. If you ever thought that the constant ebb and flow of the sea…

Frederic ColierJanuary 10, 2018

Fiction Romance Romance - Featured

“Turn Back Time” Proves an Unlikely Yet Wonderful Blend of Love Story, Travelogue and Thriller

Annette Anders weaves together an eclectic montage of people, places and plotlines in this novel, first in a series of four. David is a Broadway star on the road; Stella, a heartbroken library curator; Naomi, a sharp-tongued travel agent; and there’s Revan, adventure-seeking photographer. However, Anders isn’t content to write…

Sherri DaleyMarch 10, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

The Appetite of France’s King Alters the Life of a Young Maid and Her Daughter

Veronique’s life is not easy. It’s Paris, 1755. Her father is dead, her mother is desperately poor, and the family’s four children sometimes go hungry. But one day that all changes. An elderly stranger wearing a purple frock coat approaches Veronique’s mother and says there is a place for the…

Nancy BilyeauFebruary 22, 2022

Fiction

Tyranny of the High Seas Turns an Eager Bride Into a Fearless Captain in “The Highland Thistle”

If you put the best parts of Outlander and Pirates of the Caribbean together, you would get The Highland Thistle (Bowker) by KJ Fay, a swashbuckling tale brimming with adventure. The year is 1584; Scotland is on the precipice of a Civil War. Rebels and traitors are sweeping through the…

Kelsey HallSeptember 15, 2021

Fiction

“The Flight Portfolio” Inspired by Man Who Helped Jewish Artists Escape Occupied France

“Masterfully crafted and impossible to put down ... a testament to the enduring power of art, and love, in any form.” —Entertainment Weekly — AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK BEGINNING JULY 1 — The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer (Knopf), an incredible, important work of fiction with a touch of humor, is…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 26, 2020

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: A Revolution for Women and France

This has been the year of “Becoming” … and Heather Webb, the internationally bestselling author of six historical fiction novels, has proven that Becoming Josephine (Plume) deserves to be on its own special mantel with her captivating tale of an extraordinary woman’s rise to power against all odds. Webb is a master storyteller…

Lisa BarrJanuary 17, 2019

Fiction

Interview with Michèle Phoenix, author of ‘The Space Between Words’

Watch our new author video interview, “15 minutes with… Michèle Phoenix,” now! Here, we talk about her new novel , The Space Between Words, how her travels inspire her writing and her work with "Third Culture Kids". You don’t want to miss this interview brought to you by NetGalley, Meryl Moss Media…

BookTribJuly 31, 2017

Fiction

Serge Joncour Investigates Humanity’s Capacity to Tame Nature in “Wild Dog”

So begins Serge Joncour’s riveting novel, Wild Dog (Gallic Books), translated from the French by Jane Aitken and Polly Mackintosh, and winner of the Landerneau Prize and a French award for environmental fiction. Its narratives alternate between one week in August 2017, and a full year at the outbreak of…

Gisèle LewisMay 10, 2021

Fiction

Sarah Winman’s “Tin Man” is Heartbreaking and Tender

A tender and beautiful story, Sarah Winman's novel Tin Man is heartbreaking and wonderfully moving, focusing on the relationship between two people, first as young boys and then as adults, with an exquisitely written and introspective look into the experiences and intimacies that are shared in a relationship so close. At twelve…

Jennifer BlankfeinJune 11, 2018

Fiction

Kate Quinn’s “The Huntress:” Chase for War Camp Guard

An idea for a novel can be sparked by reading about a person who existed in the flesh. That’s what happened when Kate Quinn, author of the breakout bestseller The Alice Network and other historical novels, came across the nonfiction story of Hermine Braunsteiner, the first Nazi war criminal to…

Nancy BilyeauFebruary 25, 2019

Fiction

Jewish History is Revisited in Martha Hall Kelly’s ‘Lilac Girls’

If you missed the release of Lilac Girls, now is the time to buy the paperback. It is historical fiction based on true and harrowing events during World War II. For me, the Holocaust has always been mostly about how the Jews were prosecuted; a devastating time in our history…

Jennifer BlankfeinNovember 25, 2017

Fiction

Plague Is Coming to Reign – Here’s Two Books of Treachery While You Wait

Look! So many pretty people on The CW, especially on my guilty pleasure show, Reign. It’s a riveting historical tale that follows Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1557 France. Not interested yet? How about adding a love triangle, a borderline psychotic king and a conniving queen with a growing murder…

McKenzie MorrellJuly 26, 2014

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ Year in Post-War Paris

This current novel is an expansion of her New York Times article: A Year in Paris that Transformed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis published in June, 2019. Vast numbers of biographies, newspaper and magazine articles have been published about the former First Lady and her storied life. Although Jacqueline in Paris is…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 29, 2022

Previously Unpublished Hemingway Story

Cook Your Way Around the World

Discover How One Woman Transformed Costume Design in the Golden Age of Hollywood

BookTrib Review: Jonathan White Captures the ‘Spirit of the Ocean’ in ‘Tides’

“Turn Back Time” Proves an Unlikely Yet Wonderful Blend of Love Story, Travelogue and Thriller

The Appetite of France’s King Alters the Life of a Young Maid and Her Daughter

Tyranny of the High Seas Turns an Eager Bride Into a Fearless Captain in “The Highland Thistle”

“The Flight Portfolio” Inspired by Man Who Helped Jewish Artists Escape Occupied France

Tall Poppy Review: A Revolution for Women and France

Interview with Michèle Phoenix, author of ‘The Space Between Words’

Serge Joncour Investigates Humanity’s Capacity to Tame Nature in “Wild Dog”

Sarah Winman’s “Tin Man” is Heartbreaking and Tender

Kate Quinn’s “The Huntress:” Chase for War Camp Guard

Jewish History is Revisited in Martha Hall Kelly’s ‘Lilac Girls’

Plague Is Coming to Reign – Here’s Two Books of Treachery While You Wait

Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ Year in Post-War Paris

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