Blogs in June 2024

The Summer I Met Jack 23rd June 2024

New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark – and the child they may have had. Based on a real story – in 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in...

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The Lipstick Bureau 15th November 2022

1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy’s capital. One of the OSS’s few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she’s tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing...

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The Bookseller’s Secret 5th May 2021

ARISTOCRAT, AUTHOR, BOOKSELLER, WWII SPY–A THRILLING NOVEL ABOUT REAL-LIFE LITERARY ICON NANCY MITFORD In 1942, London, Nancy Mitford is worried about more than air raids and German spies. Still recovering from a devastating loss, the once sparkling Bright Young...

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A Paris Apartment 30th July 2014

When April Vogt’s boss tells her about the discoveries in a cramped, decrepit ninth arrondissement apartment, the Sotheby’s continental furniture specialist does not hear the words “dust” or “rats” or “shuttered for seventy years.” She hears Paris. She hears...

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