Marina Maxwell
The Wild Date Palm
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It’s a rare experience when you encounter an historical novel that not only sweeps you away with a magnificent, stirring tale full ...Read Review
The Engraver’s Secret
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This dual-timeline novel has its roots in a feud between the Flemish artist, Peter Paul Rubens, and his principal engraver, Lucas Vorsterman. Canadian ...Read Review
The Star on the Grave
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Based on the author’s own family history, this novel features a little-known aspect of World War II. It’s 1968 in Sydney, Australia. ...Read Review
The Milliner of Bendigo
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Evie Emerson is in a tricky situation. Edwin Cooper, a man she had briefly and foolishly courted, announces via the local newspaper that ...Read Review
The Chocolate Factory
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In the early 1920s, the British confectionary consortium of Cadbury-Fry-Pascall sets up its first overseas factory near Hobart, Tasmania. Dorothy Adwell is one ...Read Review
The Wind from All Directions
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In 1792, Captain George Vancouver is ordered by the British Admiralty to continue exploration of the Pacific Northwest. He is also charged with a ...Read Review
The Unearthed
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Old bones – ‘mossed and soft’ – are discovered in the wilderness near Queenstown. Forensic scientist Antonia Kovacs arrives from Hobart to investigate them, also ...Read Review
Salonika Burning
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The novel opens with harrowing scenes of the great fire sweeping through Salonika in 1917. It destroys two-thirds of the ancient city and leaves ...Read Review
Snapshots from Home
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It is 1917. Edie Stark is grateful for the opportunity to escape her tyrannical and bigoted father, Frederick, when she takes up a teaching ...Read Review
The Ship’s Midwife
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The “coffin ships” that crossed the Atlantic in the mid-1800s are well-known. Numerous impoverished Irish emigrants died before reaching their destination, the ...Read Review
