You can pre-order The Last Grand Tour by clicking on the name of any of these great independent bookstores that will be hosting book-related events:
Powell’s Books, Portland, OR (Tuesday, January 28, 2025)
Edmonds Bookshop, Edmonds, WA (Thursday, January 30)
Village Books, Bellingham, WA (Thursday, February 6)
Third Place Books Ravenna, Seattle, WA (Tuesday, February 11)
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My new novel, THE LAST GRAND TOUR, is available for pre-ordering NOW!
Reserve your copy by clicking below (or asking for it at your favorite independent bookstore):
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Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Grand-Tour-Michael-McGregor/dp/1957024100/
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Publication date: January 28, 2025
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The Advance Reader Copies of THE LAST GRAND TOUR arrived over the weekend, giving me a chance to hold the fruits of my labor in my hands for the first time.
What an immense joy.
You can pre-order it on Amazon now. It should be available on other sites soon!
Publication date: January 28, 2025
[Cover design by Olivia Croom Hammerman Design]
Here’s the cover for my novel, THE LAST GRAND TOUR, coming from Korza Books on January 28, 2025.
Cover design by the wondeful Olivia Croom Hammerman at OCHbookdesign.com.
On a foggy morning with geese drifting by, a seagull flying overhead, and otters playing just offshore, I’m pleased to announce that my novel, THE LAST GRAND TOUR, will be published on JANUARY 28, 2025.
Here’s a description of the book:
American tour guide Joe Newhouse wants nothing more than to reach Venice. Since moving to Munich after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he’s watched his business fail, his wife leave him, and his love for Europe diminish. Now he faces one last ten-day tour with a surly group that doesn’t want to be there. As he leads them through the mythic lands of Europe’s Romantic past, he finds himself disturbed by their stories of earlier lives, puzzled by their desire to be with a man who doesn’t arrive, and entangled in an illicit affair that promises to either save him or plunge his tour—and his life—into madness.
Soaked in the Romantic atmosphere and dark deeds of old Europe—as well as the freedoms and hopes of a new era—The Last Grand Tour takes us on a perilous journey through Hitler’s Berchtesgaden, Mozart’s Salzburg, and Mad King Ludwig’s Bavarian fantasyland before reaching its stunning climax in the murky waters of Venice. Along the way, it explores the often-shifting lines between fidelity and freedom, illusion and reality, regret and desire.
I’ll be posting a picture of the cover soon!
Looking back through slides of my early travels in Europe, I came across this one from my first time in Venice. I’ve been thinking about Venice a lot lately because it’s the final destination for the group in my upcoming novel, The Last Grand Tour.
We’re working on the cover for the novel now. I’ll post a picture of it when it’s ready for release.
The publication date hasn’t been finalized yet but it will probably be early November. I’ll announce it on this site as soon as it’s set.
I just delivered the manuscript for my book An Island to Myself: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life to Monkfish Publishing.
Look for it in the spring of 2025.
The press release for my first novel went out this week! It includes the title reveal: The Last Grand Tour. I’ll be posting more about the book in the weeks ahead.
You can read more about the publisher, Korza Books, on their website.
When it rains, it pours. I’ve signed another contract, this one for a book on solitude to be published by Monkfish Publishing in the spring of 2025. The title is still TBD but the subtitle will be: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life.
The book is centered on my experiences during a month of total solitude on Patmos when I was 27 years old. It was after that month, while I was still on the island, that I met Robert Lax. The rest of the book will feature my later experiences of solitude, some on Patmos, some elsewhere.
The book’s last section will be about a return to Patmos I have planned for next month, during the same time period I was there the first time. I’m going to see how an older man’s experience of solitude today differs from that of a younger man at a time when absolute solitude was less difficult to achieve.
I’m excited to announce that I’ve signed a contract with Korza Books to publish my first novel in the fall of 2024. A press release will be coming in January.
The book follows guide Joe Newhouse, whose marriage and business are failing, as he leads one last tour from Munich to Venice shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Traveling through the heart of Romantic Europe, Joe sorts the stories and mysteries of clients who don’t seem to want to be there while weighing–and acting on–his own desires.