Patricia Furstenberg, Writer of Historical Fiction, Children's Books
Travel via Stories
Welcome to Reading Over the Weekend with Lisette Brodey’s All That Was Taken, a psychological suspense novel where love and healing emerge from the shadows of loss, secrets, and danger.
Some books ask to be analysed. Others ask to be noticed. And then there are those that make you pause halfway through a page and say, I want to remember that.
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Welcome to Reading Over the Weekend about that first kiss. First heartbreak. First driving lesson. First European adventure. First real Christmas tree – in Fifteen First Times by witty D.G. Kaye
Some books ask to be analysed. Others ask to be noticed. And then there are those that make you pause halfway through a page and say, I want to remember that.
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Welcome to Reading Over the Weekend when we delve into a contemporary mystery in An Honourable Institution by Laura Lyndhurst.
Some books ask to be analysed. Others ask to be noticed. And then there are those that make you pause halfway through a page and say, I want to remember that.
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Welcome to Reading Over the Weekend. We’ll start this series in postwar Britain with Alex Craigie’s wonderfully nostalgic The Rat in the Python book series.
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Venture through the gates of ages, dare to time-travel and choose one journey to one of the 18 cities where history still breathes. Pick a historical fiction novel from the list below and walk the streets of ancient Rome or Athens; jump into the middle ages in Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Madrid; explore Renaissance in London, Florence, Prague; enjoy early modern life in Amsterdam or Geneva, Victorian Edinburgh or fin-de-siècle Vienna and Venice; read yourself into post-WW1 Moscow, or WW2 Lisbon and Paris, or deep-dive into the historical fiction of Dubrovnik and Budapest as if you belonged there. And if you are ready for more, there’s also a bonus read.
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