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Fishbones, Fairy Tales and Family Secrets: Fishbone Cinderella by Elizabeth Lim
BY HELEN PIPER There are fairy godmothers, glass slippers and handsome princes—and then there are magical fishbones. Elizabeth Lim’s Fishbone Cinderella (...Read Article
Launch: Carlo Gibbs’s Silver’s Phoney War
INTERVIEWED BY LESLIE S. LOWE Carlo Gibbs(opens in new tab) is a new author whose Oscar Silver series is the product of ...Read Article
Launch: Tara Lynn Masih’s The Silent Women
INTERVIEW BY ELLEN IRWIN Tara Lynn Masih(opens in new tab) is an award-winning American author of place-based historical novels and short stories, ...Read Article
Launch: Désirée Ohrbeck’s The Scandinavian War Bride
INTERVIEW BY ANNE EASTER SMITH Born and raised in Denmark, Désirée Ohrbeck now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family. ...Read Article
Launch: Barbara O’Neal’s A Thousand Painted Hours
INTERVIEWED BY WAHEED RABBANI Barbara O’Neal is the author of more than a dozen award-winning, bestselling novels, including the runaway bestseller, When ...Read Article
Quiet Acts of Defiance: Combating Nazi Art Theft
WRITTEN BY ELISABETH STORRS Have you ever paused in a museum to study a piece of art? One by Monet or Rembrandt? A ...Read Article
Stranger Than We Think?: Francis Spufford on Turning Fantasy into a Story that Resonates
WRITTEN BY LUCINDA BYATT Francis Spufford is the author of the historical novels Golden Hill (his 2016 award-winning debut), Light Perpetual (2021, nominated for the ...Read Article
New Voices: Jackie McMahon, Callie Murray, Susan Nolen & Ellen Rachlin
WRITTEN BY MYFANWY COOK Jackie McMahon, Callie Murray, Susan Nolen and Ellen Rachlin have set out to tantalise their readers by encouraging them ...Read Article
Launch: Apple Gidley’s Annie’s Day
INTERVIEWED BY LESLIE S. LOWE A nomadic life has seen Anglo-Australian Apple Gidley live in twelve countries as diverse as Equatorial Guinea and ...Read Article
Strong Forces in Difficult Times: The Paris Thief by Lisa Rochon
BY TERRI BAKER The scandalous theft of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in 1911, the Paris avant-garde art scene in the decade before World ...Read Article
