Julia Stuart

How a Beefeater and a Tortoise Captured America's Attention

Julia Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Julia Stuart

In all my escapist reveries I never imagined the amazing response that my second novel, The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise would receive in America.

'The Tower, The Zoo, And The Tortoise': This Summer's Surprise Beach Read?

USA Today | Craig Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Can a quirky novel about a hapless Beefeater guard at the Tower of London and his 181-year-old pet tortoise, Mrs. Cook, be August's hot beach read?...