Blogs in June 2020

Ruth 1st June 2020

From the lush Owen Stanley Ranges of Papua New Guinea to working-class inner Sydney… Ruth follows the story of its protagonist, the only daughter of John and Alice Madison, coffee plantation owners. Set in the fifties and sixties, Ruth...

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Rituals of the Dead: An Artifact Mystery 10th May 2018

Art, religion, and anthropology collide in Alderson’s latest art mystery thriller, Rituals of the Dead, Book three of the Adventures of Zelda Richardson series. Art history student Zelda Richardson is working at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam on an exhibition...

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Things Bright and Beautiful 10th April 2018

Advent Island is a place beyond the reaches of Bea’s most fitful imaginings. It’s not just the rats and the hordes of mosquitos and the weevils in the powdered milk. Past the confines of their stuffy little house, amidst...

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Travels with George 25th March 2018

In 2000, after her children set off for new lives on the other side of the globe, Vivien Fallows embarked on a solo travel mission. At the request of her husband, Vivien shared the stories in a diary, which...

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The Proving Grounds: A Quest for Manhood 6th February 2018

The author, already adopted by a New Guinea village and tutored in tribal love during an initiation ceremony, now determines to experience the “natural” world in the light of this knowledge – how to worship and hunt in it....

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