Conversations with Authors - Jacqueline Winspear
Sunday, May 10th • 7:00pm EST/4:00pm PST
Jacqueline Winspear
in conversation with Jennifer Barth
Friends,
Thank you to everyone who joined us for my conversation with Jennifer Barth, my editor at Harper Collins, and Elaine Petrocelli. It was terrific fun and you came up with some great questions for me. On June 20th I'll be back again for a conversation with Elizabeth George—I know, lucky me! During this time of lockdown, I’ve mainly been steeped in research for my next novel, which will be out in March 2021, so I haven’t been able to wallow in recreational reading. However, here are a few of the books I mentioned during the conversation with Jennifer:
- Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
- A terrific book about five very independent women, including Dorothy Sayers and Virginia Woolf, who lived in Mecklenburg Square in London’s Bloomsbury area between the wars.
- No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I by Wendy Moore
- About London's Endell Street Military Hospital in WW1; it was completely staffed by women, from the doctors to nurses, orderlies, cooks, drivers. A testament to a brilliant generation of women.
- Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson
- It’s a few years old now, but this book is about the women of Britain who remained unmarried following the Great War and how they had to make their way in the world. They were the first generation of women to go to war in great numbers in modern times and they truly blazed a trail—incredibly inspiring book! Virginia Nicholson has also written books about women of subsequent generations, and has a new book out about the 60’s—brilliant social historian.
One of the questions I was asked during the event was if there were any TV shows or movies based on WW2 that I would recommend. I loved Foyles War, particularly as I used to live in Hastings, where it’s set. There are also some old war movies that I particularly love: The Dam Busters, The Guns of Navarone, and The Train are among my favorites. There’s nothing like a lockdown to bring out the classic movie goer in me!
Below, please find links to purchase all of the books recommended by Jacqueline, as well as a selection of her own books.
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • “A beautiful and deeply moving book.”—Sally Rooney, author of Normal People
An engrossing group portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London’s Mecklenburgh Square in search of new freedom in their lives and work.
The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I$18.95ISBN: 9780195378221Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Oxford University Press, USA - October 1st, 2008Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort to life's great feast.
$27.99ISBN: 9780062436665Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper - March 26th, 2019Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.
When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her dea$17.99ISBN: 9780062859341Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - March 26th, 2019A one-of-a-kind illustrated companion to the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series, which invites readers into the beloved heroine’s world—and shares her wisdom and inspiration.
$16.99ISBN: 9780062436641Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - February 26th, 2019Finalist for the Inaugural Sue Grafton Memorial Award
Maisie Dobbs—one of the most complex and admirable characters in contemporary fiction (Richmond Times Dispatch)—faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II.
$15.99ISBN: 9780062436627Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - February 27th, 2018"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." — Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie Dobbs
ISBN: 9780062220615Availability: BackorderedPublished: Harper Perennial - February 14th, 2017Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler’s Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue—the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s New York Times bestselling “series that seems to get better with each entry” (Wall Street Journal).
ISBN: 9780062220561Availability: BackorderedPublished: Harper Perennial - February 23rd, 2016Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . .
In Jacqueline Winspear‘s powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies, deceit, and peril.
ISBN: 9780062220509Availability: Special OrderPublished: Harper - July 1st, 2014The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world.
ISBN: 9780062049612Availability: BackorderedPublished: Harper Perennial - April 8th, 2014From New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, now available in paperback—the tenth novel in the New York Times bestselling Maisie Dobbs series—“a series that seems to get better with each entry” (Wall Street Journal)—in which the death of an Indian immigrant leads Maisie in an unexpected direction.
$15.99ISBN: 9780062049582Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - October 30th, 2012The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback—an investigation into the killing of a local man from Maisie’s childhood neighborhood leads the sleuth from her own doorstep to London’s halls of power.
$16.99ISBN: 9780061727719Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - March 6th, 2012From New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, now available in paperback— the latest episode in the New York Times bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs’ first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor, and leads to th
$16.99ISBN: 9780061727689Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - February 22nd, 2011In this riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs is hired to unravel a case of wartime love and death, an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.
$17.00ISBN: 9780312429256Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Picador - November 24th, 2009In the thrilling new novel by the New York Times bestselling author of An Incomplete Revenge, Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale
$17.00ISBN: 9780312428181Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Picador - November 25th, 2008In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community
$17.00ISBN: 9780312426859Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Picador - June 12th, 2007Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist—and World War I veteran—in the fourth entry in the bestselling series
$17.00ISBN: 9780312426217Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Picador - June 27th, 2006In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death.
ISBN: 9781616956325Availability: BackorderedPublished: Soho Crime - August 4th, 2015The second Maisie Dobbs mystery
$16.95ISBN: 9781616954079Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Soho Crime - June 3rd, 2014"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander."
—Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie Dobbs
