C. P. Lesley, Novelist

Fall 2024 Bookshelf: Suzanne Allain, Monica Chenault-Kilgore, Christina Dodd, Vanessa Kelly, Mimi Matthews, Alyson Richman, and Elif Shafak

New Books Network interview with Madeline Martin, whose latest World War II novel, The Booklover's Library, has come out from Hanover Square

Interview with Andrew Varga, whose latest Jump in Time novel (YA), set on the Eurasian steppe, has just come out from Imbrifex Books

New Books Network interview with Heather Redmond about her latest historical mystery featuring Mary Shelley and the Godwin family

New Books Network interview with Eve J. Chung, whose "Daughters of Shandong" explores the escape of three abandoned women from Mao's China

New Books Network interview with historical romance author Joanna Lowell, whose latest novel, A Shore Thing, has just appeared in print.

New Books Network interview with A. Engels, author of A Fool for an Heir, set during the reign of Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow

New Books Network interview with Ruth Reichl, about "The Paris Novel"

List of novels on my bookshelf for Spring 2024, by Audrey Burges, Eve J. Chung, Judith Lindbergh, Ruth Reichl, and Shaina Steinberg

New Books Network interview with Robin Oliveira about her latest novel, set in late 19th-century Scotland and Washington Territory

New Books Network interview with bestselling authors Kate Quinn and Janie Chang about their co-written novel, The Phoenix Crown

New Books Network interview with Teresa H. Janssen, author of The Ways of Water

Inventory of everything I have been doing to clear the decks, much of it associated with writing, so that I can return to my current novel

New Books Network interview with Andrea Penrose about The Diamond of London, a novel about Lady Hester Stanhope

My bookshelf, Winter 2024: Stephanie Dray, Laurie R. King, Clare McHugh, Andrea Penrose, Kate Quinn and Janie Chang, Deanna Raybourn

A look at my writing plans for 2024, as well as other book and editing news

New Books Network interview with Isa Arsén, whose debut novel Shoot the Moon looks at the Apollo Space Program

New Books Network interview with Alice Sherman Simpson, author of The Winthrop Agreement, about a young woman in early 20th century NYC

New Books Network interview with author Stephanie Cowell about her latest historical novel, The Boy in the Rain

New Books Network interview with Louise Hare, author of the Canary Club mysteries and other novels