by NRB | 3 Mar 2020 | Fiction |
The author of Palace of Tears and The Opal Dragonfly returns with a new historical novel that encompasses murder and an exotic all-female club in 1930s Kings Cross. Julian Leatherdale’s third historical novel is a lavish escapade through Sydney’s Kings Cross...
by NRB | 23 Jun 2015 | Fiction |
This generational saga centred on a lavish luxury hotel in the Blue Mountains has all the ingredients of intrigue, scandal and tragedy. Palace of Tears is one of those big sprawling sagas, a narrative of several generations’ loves and losses buttressed by the author’s...
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