Apr 28, 2020
Wade Rouse, the award-winning memoirist who writes under the pen name, Viola Shipman, discussed his new novel, The Heirloom Garden. The book follows two women, separated by a generation but equally scarred by war, who find hope, meaning and friendship through a garden of flowers. Wade discusses his grandmothers who...
Apr 15, 2020
In our latest "Bookreporter Talks To" interview, Carol Fitzgerald interviews Don Winslow, about Broken, his new collection of intense, crime fiction novellas. Each of the six pieces in Broken delivers the kind of sharp propulsive writing that readers have come to expect from Winslow. One is sharper than the next, and a...
Apr 10, 2020
Robert Kolker, the New York Times bestselling author of Lost Girls, talks to Carol about his new book Hidden Valley Road, which follows the true story of a large family upended by acute schizophrenia in the 1960's and 1970's. At that time, the family hid any suspicion of their abnormal lives, but under the curtain was a...
Apr 9, 2020
Lisa Wingate is a journalist, and inspirational speaker, and a #1 New York Times bestseller who wrote over thirty novels. The Book of Lost Friends takes place in 1875 and 1987 in Louisiana. Over a hundred years ago, three women travel to find a freed slave's family with the help of the "Lost Friends" advertisements. In...
Apr 1, 2020
Lisa See is a number one New York Times bestselling novelist who was named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women. The Island of Sea Women tells the story of two best friends who gain the dangerous responsibility of working as free divers, women who swim deep beneath the ocean's surface...