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Her Jailer’s Secrets Blitz

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A broken family’s fight against a brutal justice system

 

Historical Fiction, Australian History, Literary Fiction

Date Published: April 2022

Publisher: Tablo Publishing

 

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In 1786 Elizabeth Fitzgerald, a 26 year old woman, became involved in
England’s brutal justice system and found herself exiled from her homeland
to Botany Bay in the antipodes where she had to endure brutality, near
starvation, love and a shipwreck off Norfolk Island with her friend Jane
Fitzgerald. She bore twin girls to a marine William Mitchell while on the
island and began her own family in this strange new land, as she never
expected to ever see her family members, or friends, ever again.

On her return to Sydney she began a new life with another soldier, Thomas
Wright, with whom she had another child but was imprisoned again for selling
her children’s rations to purchase rum where she met a strange cockney woman
named Margaret, who was in charge of the prison and who changed her
life.

William Mitchell, who returned to England carried out an investigation into
who Margaret really was as she had now died, and in doing so came up against
Irish rebels who threatened his life but finally gave him a sealed letter as
to her true identity, that could not be opened by anyone other than one of
the two Fitzgerald women.

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Brian F. Smith

Brian F. Smith has always had an interest in writing that became further
enhanced with his early career moves which included his service with the
Australian Army before joining the Victoria Police Force. He later went on
to become the Chief Security Officer at the Loloho Port Site on Bougainville
Island in Papua New Guinea. On his return to Australia, he founded the
‘Jordan River Journal,’ a Hobart, Tasmania suburban newspaper before going
to the island’s west coast where he founded the ‘ The Western Herald’
another local weekly newspaper. Since his retirement, he has written four
books: ‘Off The Record”, “Convict Connections’, ‘Witness to a
Miracle’ and ‘Her Jailer’s Secrets’. In 2020 he obtained a Diploma in Family
History from the University of Tasmania.

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Malory’s Quest Blitz

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Historical Fiction

Published: February 28, 2022

Publisher: Austin MacCauley

 

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March 1471, Rogue Malory is dead. His friends, the Newgate Three, set out
to fulfil their promise to him to deliver the finished manuscript of Le
Morte D’Arthur to the friars of Winchester. But national events
intrude and the three find themselves cast out from England. Advised by
their old friend, Sir Anthony Tanner, and his betrothed, Margaret Limpsett,
they set out to Bruges in Flanders where they seek advice on how to proceed
to protect the manuscript. New characters are introduced, including William
Caxton who becomes integral to their lives. Previous friends – and
enemies – reappear and play their parts. But not all is well. At the
end, there is a shocking discovery. Will the quest be fulfilled?

 

‘Malory’s Quest’ is an historical novel set in 15th century England at the
time of the fractious struggle for the throne. It is the second in the
‘Malory Trilogy’ and continues where ‘Rogue Malory’ ended. Accurately
researched, it contains a host of lively fictional characters, as well as
major players in the labyrinthine politics of the era. The manuscript,
written in Newgate Jail, is entrusted to the care of his three greatest
friends, who pledge themselves to fulfil his dying wish that they take it to
Winchester Priory. Their journey diverts considerably, carrying them to
France and Bruges, where they meet William Caxton, a pioneer of printing who
becomes an integral character in this and the final book. The trilogy takes
a fictional look at how the manuscript disappeared for fifteen years before
it was eventually published by Caxton in 1485. The final part: ‘Malory’s
Grail’ is in production and due out next year.

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London, 1469. Rogue Malory sets out to show how, ‘comfortably
imprisoned’ in Newgate Jail, Sir Thomas Malory works on his magnum
opus, Le Morte D’Arthur, with the help of his scribe, Montmorency
Pickle, his servant, John Appleby, and his stationer, Jack Worms. The story
is an imagined account of the preparation of the famous manuscript, the true
revelations of Sir Tom’s disreputable past and the factual events
covering the final two years of the ongoing tussle for the crown between the
Earl of Warwick and King Edward IV. A combination of real and imaginary
events brings to life this arresting period of history.

Reluctantly, Monty and Jack become embroiled in Malory’s political
machinations whilst also contending with his dissolute yet magnetic
character. Whores, pimps, spies and officials pass in and out of Sir
Tom’s cell, where he sits at its centre like a hilarious old spider
weaving mischief.

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Helen Lewis

Writing under her maiden name, Helen Lewis began writing novels after
retiring from a career in education. She has previously published two novels
of a trilogy set in Victorian England, but she has always been drawn to the
fifteenth century. She has a PhD from Birmingham University; her thesis:
Warwick the Kingmaker in Shakespeare’s ‘Henry VI’. Later she wrote a quartet
of novels on Warwick’s life – Lodestar – and it was while researching them
that she came across the lively character Sir Thomas Malory.

 

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Atlantic Rue Blitz

 

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Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Historical Thriller

1903. The South Atlantic. HMS Roanoke steams deeper into the southern hemisphere’s winter, bound for the sparsely populated Cranmer Island. A chance encounter at sea has fateful consequences for her demoralized crew and presents a growing mystery they must resolve while they struggle to reconcile with their pasts.

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Jack Adderley is the author of the historical mystery novel, Atlantic Rue.

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Hemingway’s Daughter Virtual Book Tour

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Historical Fiction

 

Date Published: July 10, 2021

Finn Hemingway knows for a fact that she’s been born at the wrong time into the wrong family with the wrong talents, making her three dreams for the future almost impossible to attain. She burns to be a trial lawyer in an era when Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being told to type and when a man who is 500th in his law school class is hired over a woman who is first in hers. She yearns to find true love when the family curse dictates that love always ends for the Hemingways, and usually, it ends badly. And finally, she’d give up the first two dreams if she were able to triumph on the third. She longs to have an impact on the only thing that matters to her father: his writing. To accomplish that would require a miracle. All three dreams are almost impossible, but it’s the “almost” that keeps Finn going. Ernest Hemingway had three sons but ached to have a daughter.

This is her story.

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Christine M. Whitehead,

I get my best ideas in the barn as I groom my horse, Nifty. The dogs keep a careful distance as I lift a hoof, scrape it out, then move on to the next one. The repetition soothes me. I begin to dream about women like me, women on the edge, restless women who still want to trust that there is love out there, and that being sentimental is not always contemptible, and that good men are not so hard to find if you keep slogging along, seeking a melody to fit your words. So that’s who and what I write about: restless women searching.

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Hemingway’s Daughter Blitz

 

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Historical Fiction

 

Date Published: July 10, 2021

Finn Hemingway knows for a fact that she’s been born at the wrong time into the wrong family with the wrong talents, making her three dreams for the future almost impossible to attain. She burns to be a trial lawyer in an era when Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being told to type and when a man who is 500th in his law school class is hired over a woman who is first in hers. She yearns to find true love when the family curse dictates that love always ends for the Hemingways, and usually, it ends badly. And finally, she’d give up the first two dreams if she were able to triumph on the third. She longs to have an impact on the only thing that matters to her father: his writing. To accomplish that would require a miracle. All three dreams are almost impossible, but it’s the “almost” that keeps Finn going. Ernest Hemingway had three sons but ached to have a daughter.

This is her story.

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