by NRB | 31 Jan 2024 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
It’s July 1945, and the war in Europe is finally over. Auguste Duchene has survived, but the past will not let go. The second novel featuring Duchene, The Berlin Traitor closely follows the first, The Paris Collaborator, which was set in and around occupied Paris....
by NRB | 22 Oct 2013 | Fiction |
This novel of the aftermath of war, grief and library books is written with elegance and feeling. It’s 1948, and although the war has been over for years, its echoes reverberate. In Thirroul, a small town on the coast south of Sydney, Anikka Lachlan counts...
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