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The 6:41 to Paris: release day today

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Today is the official

release day of

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(fiction)

 Release date: November 10, 2015
at New Vessel Press

153  pages

ISBN: 978-1939931269

Website | Goodreads

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SYNOPSIS

Cecile, a stylish 47-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she’s exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it’s soon occupied by a man she instantly recognizes: Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation 30 years ago. In the fraught hour and a half that ensues, their express train hurtles towards the French capital. Cécile and Philippe undertake their own face to face journey—In silence? What could they possibly say to one another?—with the reader gaining entrée to the most private of thoughts. This is a brilliant psychological thriller, a high-wire act of emotions on rails, about past romance, with all its pain and promise. [provided by the publisher]

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Jean-Philippe Blondel
was born in 1964 in Troyes, France
where he lives as an author and English teacher.
His novel The 6:41 to Paris
has been a bestseller in both France and Germany.

 ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Alison Anderson is a novelist and translator of literature from French. Among the authors she has translated are JMG Le Clézio, Christian Bobin, Muriel Barbery and Amélie Nothomb. She has lived in Northern California and currently lives in a village in Switzerland.
 
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France Book Tours stops for November 9-15

Backstabbing in Beaujolais Monday, November 9
Review + Giveaway
at I’d Rather Be At The Beach

Wednesday, November 11
Review + Giveaway
at It’s A Mad Mad World

Sunday, November 15
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway
at Griperang’s Bookmarks

 white-leopard Friday, November 13
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway
at Musings of a Writer & Unabashed Francophile

 

Liza Perrat on Tour: Blood Rose Angel

 

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The author of Wolfsangel,

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featured on France Book Tours,
is back!

Liza PERRAT

on  Tour

December 14- 23

with

Blood Rose Angel

Blood Rose Angel

(historical romance)

 Release date: November 14, 2015
at Liza Perrat

349  pages

ISBN: 9782954168197

Website | Goodreads

SYNOPSIS

1348. A bone-sculpted angel and the woman who wears it––heretic, Devil’s servant, saint.
Midwife Héloïse has always known that her bastard status threatens her standing in the French village of Lucie-sur-Vionne. Yet her midwifery and healing skills have gained the people’s respect, and she has won the heart of the handsome Raoul Stonemason. The future looks hopeful. Until the Black Death sweeps into France.
Fearful that Héloïse will bring the pestilence into their cottage, Raoul forbids her to treat its victims. Amidst the grief and hysteria, the villagers searching for a scapegoat, Héloïse must choose: preserve her marriage, or honor the oath she swore on her dead mother’s soul? And even as she places her faith in the protective powers of her angel talisman, she must prove she’s no Devil’s servant, her talisman no evil charm.

PRAISE FOR BLOOD ROSE ANGEL

Blood Rose Angel, from the spellbinding The Bone Angel series, tells a story of continuing family traditions, friendships overcoming adversity, and how good and evil are too often bestowed on fellow humans in the name of faith”––Zoe Saadia, author of ‘The Rise of the Aztecs’ and ‘The Peacemaker’ series.

“Medicine, religion, and love intertwine in this captivating, richly-detailed portrait of a young woman’s search for identity as the Black Death makes its first inroads into Europe. Liza Perrat uses her training as a midwife and her experiences living in a French village to create a compelling and unforgettable heroine determined to heal the sick in a world still ruled by superstition”––C. P. Lesley, author of The Golden Lynx and The Winged Horse.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Liza Perrat grew up in Wollongong, Australia,
where she worked as a general nurse and midwife for fifteen years.
When she met her French husband on a Bangkok bus,
she moved to France, where she has been living
with her husband and three children for twenty years.
She works part-time as a French-English medical translator,
and as a novelist.
Since completing a creative writing course twelve years ago,
several of her short stories have won awards,
notably the Writers Bureau annual competition of 2004
and her stories have been published widely in anthologies and small press magazines.
Her articles on French culture and tradition have been published in international magazines
such as France Magazine, France Today and The Good Life France.
Spirit of Lost Angels is the first in her French historical trilogy, The Bone Angel Series.
The second – Wolfsangel – was published in October, 2013,
and the third, Blood Rose Angel, is published in November, 2015.
She is a founding member of the author collective, Triskele Books and reviews books for BookMuse.

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, December 14
Review + Interview + Giveaway at I’d Rather Be Reading

Tuesday, December 15
Review + Giveaway at It’s a Mad Mad World

Wednesday, December 16
Review + Giveaway at LibriAmoriMiei

Friday, December 18
Review at Bookramblings

Sunday, December 20
Review + Giveaway at Book And Ink

Monday, December 21
Review + Giveaway at The Discerning Reader

Tuesday, December 22
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway
at Musings of a Writer & Unabashed Francophile

Wednesday, December 23
Spotlight + Giveaway at Words And Peace

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they are listed in the entry form below
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tweeting about the giveaway everyday
of the Tour will give you 5 extra entries each time!
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7 participants will each win a copy of this book.
Choice of print or digital format
for residents of all countries!