March 2, 2022

March 2, 2022
Today's Featured Title and Contest

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book releasing in the next few months that we would like to get on your radar now. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Thursday, March 3rd at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of JOAN: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Katherine J. Chen, which releases on July 5th. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest:
JOAN: A Novel of Joan of Arc, by Katherine J. Chen

“It is as if Chen has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time.” —Hilary Mantel, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Booker Prize winner WOLF HALL

Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? From the acclaimed author of MARY B comes a stunning, secular reimagining of the epic life of Joan of Arc.

1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, becoming an unlikely hero whose name will echo across the centuries.

In Katherine J. Chen’s hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless, steel-willed and brilliant. This meticulously researched novel is a sweeping narrative of her life, from a childhood steeped in both joy and violence, to her meteoric rise to fame at the head of the French army, where she navigates the perils of the battlefield and the equally treacherous politics of the royal court. Many are threatened by a woman who leads, and Joan draws wrath and suspicion from all corners, while her first taste of fame and glory leaves her vulnerable to her own powerful ambition.

With unforgettably vivid characters, transporting settings and action-packed storytelling, JOAN is a thrilling epic and a triumph of historical fiction, as well as a feminist celebration of one remarkable --- and remarkably real --- woman who left an indelible mark on history.

- Click here to read an excerpt.

Click here to enter the contest by noon ET
on Thursday, March 3rd.

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