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Talmadge Farm: An Amazon Best Seller

December 2024 - Talmadge Farm made the Amazon Best Sellers list in Historical Event Literature Criticism.

AudioFile Magazine - Talmadge Farm

Audiobook Review by Justin Price

Caroline Country Magazine - Talmadge Farm

December 2024 Issue “Carolina Bookshelf”

The 2024 Goethe Book Awards Long List for Late Historical Fiction

Chanticleer Book Reviews - October 18, 2024

Readers’ Favorite Review of Talmadge Farm

Readers’ Favorite - October 15, 2024

Daughtry Pens Debut Novel

Johnstonian News - June 19, 2024

Silver’s Reviews - Talmadge Farm by Leo Daughtry

Silver’s Reviews Blog - June 6, 2024

Behind The Words With Leo Daughtry

Reader’s Entertainment Magazine - June 7, 2024

Sampson’s Daughtry Pens Debut Novel

The Sampson Independent - June 4, 2024

Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb

Interview with Deborah Kalb - June 1, 2024

Lawyer-Legislator Leo Daughtry Adds “Author” To His Resume

North Carolina Lawyer Magazine - May 22, 2024

Big Blend Radio Podcast

Author Leo Daughtry discusses his historical novel Talmadge Farm that transports readers to the tobacco fields of 1950s North Carolina.

Listen to the episode here.

“Daughtry uses descriptive and prosaic prose that not only transports the reader to North Carolina but paints a picture of the South in a way that is literary, engaging, and visceral.”

— BookLife Reviews

“Expansive portrait of mid-century landowners and sharecroppers in the American South. Daughtry capably evokes harsh historical truths of the era, particularly the generational abuse that wealthy landowners inflicted on the descendants of enslaved peoples.”

— BookLife Reviews

“At the heart of the novel is a thoughtful meditation on the inexorability of change, and what happens when justice results in a redistribution of success. Also, Daughtry presents a provocative profile of nepotism in these pages; for all of Gordon’s success, it’s made clear that he was never a superior businessman whose skill brought him riches; in fact, he simply inherited a thriving empire that required very little from him to continue as it always had.”

— Kirkus Reviews