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Launch: Pamela Belle’s The Boy With Five Names
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INTERVIEWED BY LESLIE S. LOWE Pamela Belle was telling stories before she could read or write, and began her first book, The Moon in the Water, at the age of thirteen. She studied history at Sussex University and amongst many... Read More
Dual Portals into a Faded Past: Almost English by Barbara Sibbald
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BY LEE ANN ECKHARDT SMITH Author Barbara Sibbald’s path to writing her latest novel, Almost English (Bayeux Arts, 2025) began in a cemetery in Kolkata, India. This is the burial site of her three-times-great grandfather, Samuel Munckley Duntze. “He was... Read More
Anne Perry’s friend, editor, and ultimate collaborator Victoria Zackheim makes Death Times Seven possible
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BY TRISH MACENULTY After novelist and screenwriter Victoria Zackheim read Cater Street Hangman, (Random House, 1979) Anne Perry’s first published novel, she was hooked. “I loved the characters, the twists and turns of the plots, and Anne’s poetic writing style.”... Read More
The Woman Beside the Painter: I Am You by Victoria Redel
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BY WILLIAMAYE JONES History remembers the names of great artists, while the lives around them fade into the margins. Studios, apprentices, assistants, and the quiet labor that supports artistic creation rarely survive in historical records. Victoria Redel’s novel I Am... Read More
Paranormal Intrigue Among Russian Émigrés in Paris: The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
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BY LAWRENCE W. POWERS Paris in the mid-1920s: recovering from the depredations of World War I but playing host to expatriate writers and artists from around the world. It is a bustling metropolis full of life and laughter, creative endeavor,... Read More
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