Chapter 16 - Part 277

Her Majesty’s Ottoman Enterprises

Historian Jerry Brotton talks with Chapter 16 about England’s groundbreaking relations with Islamic empires

By Sean Kinch | February 13, 2017

In The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam, Jerry Brotton examines the way Elizabethan England managed to circumvent Catholic Europe to open trade relations with Islamic empires. Brotton will appear at Rhodes College in Memphis to discuss “Jews and Muslims in Shakespeare’s World” with James Shapiro in Hardie Auditorium on February 22 at 6 p.m. The event, part of the Communities in Conversation series, is free and open to the public.

Corpse in the Bedroom

Chapter 16 talks with Jamie Quatro

By Stephen Usery | February 10, 2017

Stephen Usery speaks with Chattanooga writer Jamie Quatro about her collection of stories, I Want to Show You More. Quatro will give a reading at Refinery Nashville on February 17 at 6:30 p.m. This event, sponsored by the Porch Writers’ Collective, is free and open to the public.

A Thriller for Our Times

Cyber warfare gets physical for Mark Greaney’s Gray Man

By Peggy Burch | February 9, 2017

A shadowy action hero returns in Gunmetal Gray, the sixth book in Mark Greaney’s Gray Man series. Greaney will discuss his newest thriller at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Memphis on February 18 at 2 p.m., and at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 22 at 6:30 p.m.

Murder in a Cold Climate

Death and history merge in Tracee de Hahn’s debut

By Faye Jones | February 8, 2017

A murder, an ice storm, and a Swiss chateau so old that not even the residents know everything that’s in it are just a few features of Tracee de Hahn’s irresistible debut novel. The author will read from Swiss Vendetta at Star Line Books in Chattanooga on February 16 at 3 p.m. and at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on February 17 at 6 p.m.

Say My Name

C.J. Redwine puts a fresh twist on the timeless story of Rumpelstiltskin

By Tina Chambers | February 7, 2017

The Wish Granter is the second book in C.J. Redwine’s New York Times-bestselling Ravenspire series. In this installment, the Nashville novelist reimagines Rumpelstiltskin as a ruthless, power-hungry fairy eager to give people their hearts’ desires—though always with a devastating catch. Redwine will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 16 at 6:30 p.m.

Wandering, Escaping, Arriving

Sybil Baker considers many kinds of travel in Immigration Essays

By Maria Browning | February 6, 2017

Travel can be a luxury, a diversion, an obsession, a necessity, or a means of survival. In Sybil Baker’s Immigration Essays, it’s all those things, as well as a kind of meditation on how to be in the world. Baker will discuss Immigration Essays at Starline Books in Chattanooga on February 15 at 7 p.m.

The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History

By Allen Boyer and Mark Nicholls
Routledge
340 pages
$180

The book “explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book.”

~the publisher