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A Passion For Books—Chatting With Miranda Neville

Years published - 136. Novels published - 203. Novellas published - 71. Range of story dates - 9 centuries (1026-present).

Awards won: RWA RITA, RWA Honor Roll, RWA Top 10 Favorite, RT Lifetime Achievement, RT Reviewers Choice, Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews, Golden Leaf, Barclay Gold, Library Journal, ABA Notable Book, Historical Novels Review Editors Choice.

Bestseller Lists: NY Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Waldenbooks Mass Market, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Chicago Tribune, Rocky Mountain News, Publishers Weekly. That Miranda can wax poetic on the subject of rare books is no surprise, as you will soon discover. After a childhood "misspent devouring Georgette Heyer and Jean Plaidy" (her words, not mine!) she studied history at Oxford and went on to work for Sotheby's auction house in London and New York. Home is now rural Vermont, where she lives with her daughter Becca and two cats. Juliana Merton is a widow struggling to keep her rare book shop afloat after her husband’s murder. Though Lord Chase doesn’t seem like promising collector material, she desperately needs a rich client. Her own background is shadowy and the prim bookseller and rakish peer are drawn together by their social exclusion as well as a budding attraction and passion for books. When it emerges that someone wants to harm Juliana, the pair set out to find the mystery of her past, as well as his. I lived in the Wiltshire countryside and longed to live an exotic urban life. Bored stiff, I read just about everything in the house. To this day I’ve never met another soul who plowed through the collected plays of George Bernard Shaw. After my mother died, my father moved to smaller premises and was agonized to learn that he had to get rid of 90% of his books, an almost 80-year accumulation. (I swear he never got rid of a book; in my indiscriminating teens I read some appallingly dated 1930s novels.) My sisters and I weeded them out for him. Occasionally he complains...

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