Request that your book be signed at the author's talk
Signed books make great gifts!!!
Did you know that it is possible to get a signed copy of our event books? We are best able to accommodate your request if you order signed copies at least 48 hours in advance
of the author's appearance. If you are interested in obtaining a signed book from
an event occurring tonight or tomorrow - or from an event that has already passed, please call the store at
202-364-1919 or 1-800-722-0790 to confirm availability and to ensure that we receive your order more quickly.
Pre-order a signed book by selecting the book from our events calendar and adding a request for a signed book in the order comments field.
Simon Mawer’s new novel starts with a cliffhanger: a woman
parachutes into occupied France. This is operation Trapeze and British Marian,
aka Alice, is about to become French Anne-Marie—but will her partners be there
to catch her when she falls? Based on the true story of one of the 53 women
recruited by Britain’s Special Operations Executive to work undercover with the
French Resistance, Mawer’s fiction vividly evokes a time of danger and
privations and dramatizes how the war effort commandeered private as well as
public lives. It’s also an insightful and fascinating depiction of a woman’s
experience in a high-stakes man’s world. As he did so powerfully in Mendel’s Dwarf and The Glass Room, Mawer again
keeps multiple tonalities in play, the spy thriller making room for a
complicated love story, and the treacheries of wartime espionage leading to the
laws of atomic physics—all conveyed in prose that’s as lyrically descriptive as
it is cleanly factual. - Laurie Greer
All our in-store events are free and open to the public. All event titles are 20% off for members during the month in which the author appears at the store. Click here for directions. There is ample parking available in the lot behind the store and in the surrounding neighborhood.
If you can't come to an event and still want an autographed copy of the book, you may purchase titles in advance either in the store, over the phone (202.364.1919 or 1.800.722.0790), or through our website.
When buying online, simply use the checkout comments field to indicate that you would like us to request the author's signature at our event before shipping it to you. Event recordings on MP3 are also available online.
