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|  | | A Funeral in Fiesole
Four adult siblings meet in their childhood holiday home in Italy for their mother's funeral.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">At a crumbling but beautiful villa on the Fiesole hills outside Florence, four siblings reunite for the funeral of their mother, Nina Larkin. They bring with them light suitcases, and hearts heavy not only with grief, but also with small mysteries from childhood, grown large with age and time. All in their fifties now, and all with their particular variety of experiences, they remember what it was like to holiday in those hills. Youthful memories rarely match; the four recall their mo | |  | | According to Luke
Art conservator Jana Hayes, practical and sceptical after a relationship breakdown,tends to avoid intimacy and buries herself in work. Living in Venice and enjoying it, she has no idea – even when she is mugged, even when curator Rob Anderson, who happens to be a priest, shakes her tranquil humdrum days – that murder and a chase through Europe are about to confound her life.
Or that an old wooden panel and a New Testament evangelist would turn her life around and change everything: even how she regards the relationship with her own mother.
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: Verdana;">According to Luke is a thrilling romantic novel of secrecy, symbols, faith, and forbidden love. It takes the reader on a quest for an ancient truth so powerful it disturbs the Catholic Church: a truth so explosive it attracts violent separatists and demands a ransom of millions. Follow a chase that charges from Venice to Malta, and then to Ravenna: a chase that escalates to disaster in Damascus, until a solution is found in the Victorian countryside in Australia. /span>/b>/span>
| |  | | Camera Obscura
An explosion in a café blasts a mysterious woman into Bart Zacharin’s life. Nothing but a monotonous existence in Western Australia and a dull photographer’s job stand in his way to pursue Minnie Cuff. Her attraction becomes a fixation, no matter how many lies she tells. It escalates into a chase to France and Malta, where violence and trickery overwhelm Bart when he discovers what she is couriering, and for whom. His love must prove more powerful than the thrill of Minnie’s work and the compelling ruthless man she works for.
Fast moving yet poignant, Camera Obscura is one desperate man’s struggle with obsessive love that competes with a million-dollar crime empire: a search for meaning and belonging, frustrated by bad luck and misadventure.
| |  | | Death in Malta
Poignant and moving, punctuated by comical scenes and passionate
interludes, "Death in Malta" is a powerful novel of love and loss,
disappointment and dislocation - curiosity and consequences.
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span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Disillusioned and depressed, Gregory Worthington sets off from Perth in search of inspiration. He arrives in Malta full of resolve to reignite a flagging writing career. Quaint surroundings, the potential of a love affair, and the antics and warm-heartedness of villagers he befriends fuel his imagination, but his writing brings him more di | |  | | How to Disappear
Parallel stories link two lives that somehow connect. A woman and a man whose struggles are as related as themselves.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Selby Green tries to change her life, but finds she cannot control events that take her life and turn it inside-out. Edmund Eben's life is changed by war and politics, he thinks, but women exert the most significant, moving shifts in him. /span>span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Whether these two people ever meet is up to how successfully they disappear from their ordinary existence. /span>br s | |  | | The Hidden Auditorium
When Richard Wagner died in Venice in 1883, it was the end of a creative and tumultuous life. His family grieved, and the world lost a brilliant composer.
Nearly 130 years later, antiques dealer Nic Manton is led to a valuable pendant he feels provides a solution to his precarious finances. With no idea of its meaning or provenance, he is mystified why the pendant creates such fear and confusion, and aggravates rather than solves his problems. Its apparent owner is beautiful but erratic. She leads him from Rome to Venice and then to Malta, on a chase that becomes more perplexing and dangerous than it has to be. A melancholic widow and a brilliant but vague professor are willing to help. But Manton doubts whether they can.
“… beautifully written.” Boyd Lemon
An exhilarating story of romance and historical intrigue, The Hidden Auditorium is an atmospheric journey that tantalizes devotees of classical music, pleases lovers of old jewellery, and intrigues fans of traditional mysteries. Staged in beautiful locations for which Rosanne Dingli’s work has become much sought-after, this is a novel of extraordinary power.
An exhilarating story of romance and historical intrigue, The Hidden Auditorium is an atmospheric journey that tantalizes devotees of classical music, pleases lovers of old jewellery, and intrigues fans of traditional mysteries. Staged in beautiful locations for which Rosanne Dingli’s work has become much sought-after, this is a novel of extraordinary power.
| |  | | The White Lady of Marsaxlokk
A ghost story set in a ruined mansion in Malta. The building still stands today.
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by Odin odin@aflx.com
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 What causes America's mainstream media to fear and try to destroy a group of artists and their work? What happens when such a creative movement grows in strength and threatens media's bottom line? Why would extremists find it necessary to take acti |
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