Join us for another installment of Novel Night, a monthly celebration of all things prose! Here’s how it works: published authors will read from their books and there’ll be an audience Q & A. And we’ll also have “Book Talk,” in which an intrepid Malvern staff member will introduce you to one of our favorite prose titles. Also worth noting: we’re offering 20% OFF ALL FICTION TITLES during Novel Night (from 6pm till closing).

This month’s Novel Night focuses on historical fiction, with writers Sandra Fox Murphy and J. Michael Dolan. Sandra will read from That Beautiful Season, a novel set just after the civil war, and Michael will read from The Trumpets of Jericho: A Tale of the Holocaust.

Sandra Fox Murphy is the author of two historical fiction novels, A Thousand Stars and That Beautiful Season. Her award-winning paranormal short story “Passage,” was recently published, and she is currently working on the Fidelia McCord series about a family of pioneers on its way to central Texas.

As a child J. Michael Dolan happened upon the iconic I Cannot Forgive by Rudolf Vrba, thus beginning a lifelong interest in the Holocaust. A wanderer for most of his adulthood, he’s lived in a lot of places, some of them exotic, where he combined the education only travel can give with that of the written word to produce a variety of published short stories and articles. For reasons that continue to elude him, however, he never thought of writing about the Holocaust. Until, upon revisiting a remarkable piece of history he’d all but forgotten, and finding to his surprise it still lacked the book it deserved, he decided to write that book. The result is his ambitious The Trumpets of Jericho, the only novel to tackle the defiant 1944 Jewish armed uprising at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, and its just as heroic aftermath.