February 22, 2013
Press Release: THE LOLA QUARTET Paperback Coming Soon
(February 2013, Denver, CO) Unbridled Books is proud to announce the May publication of Emily St. John Mandel’s most recent novel, THE LOLA QUARTET.
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(February 2013, Denver, CO) Unbridled Books is proud to announce the May publication of Emily St. John Mandel’s most recent novel, THE LOLA QUARTET.
by Rich Rennicks
Our first new novel of 2013, Elizabeth Huergo’s The Death of Fidel Pérez is leaving the printers as I type. It’s a beautiful book, containing a wonderful, unexpected story of buried dreams, thwarted ambition, and the stirrings of hope, and one which will reveal a great deal about life in contemporary Cuba.
Jenny Shank, a writer for High Country News has reviewed William J. Cobb’s The Bird Saviors in an article that describes it as a novel that “contains plenty of love, hope and humor.”
Curt Brown, in an article for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, gives an introspective look at Peter Geye, author of Safe from the Sea and The Lighthouse Road, and his inspiration for writing both novels.
by Greg Michalson
In the best fiction, cultural identity is often inseparably tied up in sense of place. Hence, the rather Southern notion of local color. We’re shaped by where we come from and where we’re going as much as by what we want and what we’re willing to give up to get it, and of course why (but the “why” is a post for some other day).
Meg Waite Clayton, nationally bestselling author of The Four Ms. Bradwells, The Wednesday Sisters, The Language of Light and (forthcoming) The Wednesday Daughters has reviewed Masha Hamilton’s upcoming release of What Changes Everything scheduled to be published in May.
Originally scheduled with a release date of Mid-June, What Changes Everything, Masha Hamilton’s latest novel, will be published on May 25th instead.
by Greg Michalson
Three fascinating women novelists make up our forthcoming spring list, each of them bringing us books that have decidedly international flavors. Two, incidentally, are debuts.
In a review published on January 16th and posted on CottageCountryNow,ca, a Canadian based newspaper website, The Lighthouse Road was called “completely captivating”.
Carloline Leavitt, the author of the bestselling book Pictures of You has reviewed What Changes Everything by Masha Hamilton and calls it “Thrilling and Magnificent”.
BookRiot, a website “dedicated to the idea that writing about books and reading should be just as diverse as books and readers are”, has reveiwed The Mistress Contract and recommended it highly.
The Unbridled Books’ Spring 2013 line-up has now been put on the home page of our website while our “Recently Released” titles have been moved to the “Our Books” page.
The prolific book review blog, BookNAround, has published a review of The Lighthouse Road that praises both of Peter Geye’s novels.
In a blog posted by Lemuria Bookstore, Emily St. John Mandel reflects on comments made by Nicole Krauss, author of “The History of Love” and “Great House”, at Community Bookstore in Brooklyn:
Well known blogger, Trina Hayes, of “Hungry for Good Books?” has picked The Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye as the best Historical Fiction novel of 2012.