AOT #400: Thomas Keneally Podcasts The Daughters of Mars

Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed author whose works include Schindler’s List, which won the Booker Prize in 1982, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates, all of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, reads from and discusses his new novel The Daughters of Mars. At once vast in scope and extraordinarily intimate, The Daughters of Mars brings World War I vividly to life from an uncommon perspective. Keneally has written a remarkable novel about suffering and transcendence, despair and triumph, and the simple acts of decency that make us human even in a world gone mad.

($28.00) Atria ISBN # 9781476734613.

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AOT #399: Katy Butler Podcasts Knocking on Heaven’s Door

Science writer and essayist Katy Butler discusses her family memoir Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death. When doctors refused to disable her aged, very ill father’s pace­maker, sentencing him to a protracted and agonizing death, Katy set out to understand why. Her quest had barely begun when her mother faced her own illness, rebelled against her doctors, refused open-heart surgery, and instead met death head-on. Knocking on Heaven’s Door, a revolutionary blend of memoir and investigative reporting, is the fruit of the Butler family’s journey.

($25.00) Scribner ISBN # 9781451641974. You can visit Katy Butler‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #398: Jamie Ford Podcasts Songs of Willow Frost

Jamie Ford, the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, reads from and discusses his new novel Songs of Willow Frost. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls – a boy with dreams for his future and a woman escaping her haunted past – both seeking love, hope, and forgiveness.

($26.00) Ballantine ISBN # 9780345522023. You can visit Jamie Ford‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #397: Natasha Solomons Podcasts The Gallery of Vanished Husbands

Natasha Solomons, the bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, reads from and discusses her new novel The Gallery of Vanished Husbands. London, 1958. It’s the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague’s conservative Jewish community where only men can divorce women, she finds herself a living widow, invisible. Ever since her husband disappeared seven years ago, Juliet has been a hardworking single mother of two and unnaturally practical. But on her thirtieth birthday, thanks to a wealthy young artist, that’s all about to change.

($16.00) Plume ISBN # 9780142180549. You can visit Natasha Solomons‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #396: Jason Mott Podcasts The Returned

Award-winning poet Jason Mott reads from and discusses his debut novel The Returned. With spare, elegant prose and searing emotional depth, Mott’s book explores timeless questions of faith and morality, love and responsibility. A spellbinding and stunning debut, The Returned is an unforgettable story that marks the arrival of an important new voice in contemporary fiction.

($24.95) Harlequin ISBN # 9780778315339. You can visit Jason Mott‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #395: Joyce Maynard Podcasts After Her

Joyce Maynard, the New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and The Good Daughters reads from and discusses her new novel After Her. Loosely inspired by the Trailside Killer case that terrorized Marin County, California, in the late 1970s, After Her is part thriller, part love story. Maynard has created a poignant, suspenseful, and painfully real family saga that traces a young girl’s first explorations of sexuality, the loss of innocence, the bond shared by sisters, and the tender but damaged relationship between a girl and her father that endures even beyond the grave.

($25.99) William Morrow ISBN # 9780062257390. You can visit Joyce Maynard‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #394: Jeff Guinn Podcasts Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson

Formerly an award-winning investigative journalist and now a frequent guest on national radio and TV programs, Jeff Guinn is the bestselling author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Last Gunfight and Go Down Together, which was a finalist for an Edgar Award in 2010. Guinn discusses his new book Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson, the most authoritative account ever written of how an ordinary juvenile delinquent named Charles Manson became the notorious murderer whose crimes still shock and horrify us today.

($27.50) Simon & Schuster ISBN # 9781451645163.

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AOT #393: J. Maarten Troost Podcasts Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

J. Maarten Troost, the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, discusses his new book Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story. Recounting his latest hilarious misadventures in the South Pacific, following in the footsteps of his unlikely idol, Robert Louis Stevenson, Headhunters on My Doorstep is a funny yet poignant account of one man’s journey to find himself that will captivate travel writing aficionados, Robert Louis Stevenson fans, and anyone who has ever lost his way.

($26.00) Gotham ISBN # 9781592407897. You can visit J. Maarten Troost‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #392: Sophie Hannah Podcasts Kind of Cruel

Bestselling author Sophie Hannah reads from and discusses Kind of Cruel, the latest page-turner in her Zailer and Waterhouse mystery series. “This is a dark exploration of the intricacies of control and desire, and what can happen when they turn horribly warped. This may be Sophie Hannah’s best book yet.” – Tana French

($26.95) Putnam ISBN # 9780670785858. You can visit Sophie Hannah‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #391: Anne Waldman Podcasts Gossamurmur

Internationally renowned poet Anne Waldman, co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she still teaches, is acclaimed for her visionary, incantatory verse and her experimental ethos. Waldman reads from and discusses her new book Gossamurmur, a book-length oracular poem offering a witty meditation on identity theft and a searing plea for the primacy of imagination and for collective sanity in our provocative yet precarious time.

($20.00) Viking ISBN # 9780143123088. You can visit Anne Waldman‘s official web site as well.

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