Jul 29, 2020
Jill McCorkle joins “Bookreporter Talks To” to discuss her latest novel, Hieroglyphics. The idea for the novel came from two actual events. The first was the 1942 Cocoanut Grove Fire in Boston, and the second was a train wreck in Rennert, North Carolina. Both of those got Jill thinking about the families of those...
Jul 16, 2020
Rachel Beanland joins Carol Fitzgerald for “Bookreporter Talks To” to discuss her debut novel, Florence Adler Swims Forever, which was inspired by a secret kept by Rachel’s own family. The book takes place over the summer of 1934. As it opens, Florence is training to swim the English Channel and her family is...
Jul 10, 2020
Bruce Holsinger talks to Carol about his novel, The Gifted School, which is now out in paperback. It was a Bookreporter Bets On selection when it pubbed in hardcover last year.
The Gifted School follows a close-knit community of friends and their parents as applications open for entry into a school for gifted students....