Lucy Moore, Author . Viking $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-03368-3
Drawing on accounts from the waning days of the Raj and the British Empire to the present, Moore (The Thieves' Opera
) brings exhaustive research to bear on the stories of four Indian queens who used their power to help forge social change. Her...
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Lucy Moore, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-100364-8
For sheer decadence, no city, ancient or modern, rivaled 18th-century London. In its jumbled streets roamed predatory prostitutes, cunning thieves and street gangs who, for a lark, would chop off the noses of passersby. Moore debuts impressively...
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Lucy Moore, Author . Overlook $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59020-313-2
Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high-speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore (Maharinis
) emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past. Moore approaches her...
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Lucy Moore. Island, $19.95 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-1-61091-411-6
Moore (Into the Canyon: Seven Years in Navajo Country) has spent most of her life trying to get parties who disagree with each other to sit down, talk, and resolve their disputes in a mutually satisfactory way. In this sometimes inspiring, often...
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