During the winter of 1950 in the small Cotswold village of Great Rollright, amateur sleuth Gemma Brown starts to suspect that the town’s best baker, Ursula Beurton, is a Soviet spy, tumbling her headlong into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that ends with a decision that will change her life forever.
Katherine Reay is a national bestselling and award-winning author of historical fiction and clean romance novels, alongside one non-fiction work. Her latest novel, The Undercover Bookshop, is inspired by classic British mysteries.
#Attend the Lit Chat Interview
This Lit Chat Interview is a 60-minute program with a 40-minute conversation between author and a local interviewer, followed by 20 minutes of audience Q&A.
#Southeast Regional Library, 10599 Deerwood Park Blvd.
7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10 — Register
A book signing will follow with books available for sale from Happy Medium Books Café.
This Lit Chat Interview program is funded by The Community Foundation of Northeast Florida, Delores Barr Weaver Staff Giving Fund Endowment.
#Keep Reading
Katherine Reay has enjoyed a lifelong affair with books. Known for infusing classic literature allusions, especially from Jane Austen, into her writing, she explores themes of human nature and transformation. Her historical fiction, such as The Berlin Letters (2024)—an NPR "Must Read"—often features Cold War-era espionage.
Reay publishes both fiction and nonfiction, holds a BA and MS from Northwestern University, and currently lives outside Bozeman, MT, with her husband and too many dogs. Visit Katherine online at katherinereay.com, on Instagram @katherinereay, on X @katherine_reay, and on Facebook at KatherineReayBooks.
Check out more of her books from the Library!
Did you know that all of our Lit Chat authors' books count toward your Jax Stacks Reading Challenge completion? Find out what other authors we're hosting this year and join in the fun!
#Similar Books and Authors:
- The Secret Book of Flora Lea, by Patti Callahan Henry
- The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn
- The Librarian Spy, by Madeline Martin
- The Book of Lost Names, by Kristin Harmel
- All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
- The London Bookshop Affair, by Louise Fein
- The German Wife, by Kelly Rimmer
- The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett
- Keeper of Lost Children, by Sadeqa Johnson
- The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
- In Memoriam, by Alice Winn
- The Magician, by Colm Tóibín
- The Wartime Sisters, by Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Venus, Vanishing, by Rebecca Birrell
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