Film legend Olivia de Havilland has died at age 104.
Monthly Archives: July 2020
The Artist’s Secret on NetGalley!
Book reviewers! The Artist’s Secret is now available for request on NetGalley.
Despite their growing attraction, both Peter and Elizabeth have secrets that will come between them.
New South Wales, 1887
Peter Rowe’s life is in the city, but his soul is in Australia’s southern tablelands-a place he’s never seen. Taking the new land manager’s position on the thriving estate of Endmoor is the chance he needs to discover what happened to the family he has never met. What he doesn’t expect to find in the bush is his employer’s talented, beautiful sister.
Elizabeth Farrer’s world is changing rapidly. An artist whose work has begun to gain acclaim, her brother’s marriage has made her redundant in her own home and she intends to leave the country and make a life of her own. Her plans would take her far from her beloved New South Wales, but with the arrival of Endmoor’s newest employee-a man unlike any other she has met-she discovers there might just be a reason to stay right where she is.
Just as they conquer their most difficult obstacles, old prejudices rise up and threaten to keep them apart …
Read the First Chapter of The Artist’s Secret!
The first chapter of The Artist’s Secret (out in a few weeks!) is now online. Read and find preorder links HERE.
July 1916: British soldiers on the Western Front
British soldiers pose for a photograph after the Battle of Albert, part of the opening phase of the infamous First World War Battle of the Somme, in July of 1916. The men wear helmets they captured from the Germans, and sit with a dog they found in a dugout.
Vanity Fair (2018)
I’m not sure how I missed this, but a new adaptation of Vanity Fair was released in 2018, and I just watched the first episode last night. It has some great casting, captures the Regency world wonderfully, and has an amazing depiction of the (in)famous Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens!
I’m hoping to watch the rest of the miniseries over the next few days.
110 Years Ago
July 1910: A newsboy and newsgirl sell papers around saloon entrances in Bowery, Manhattan, New York City.
1910 in New York saw the first public radio broadcast – live performances of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci from the Metropolitan Opera House, and the second ever NAACP meeting.
The photograph was taken by Lewis Wickes Hine.
R.I.P. Ennio Morricone
Two Months!
Two months until The Artist’s Secret (Brindabella Secrets #2) comes out. And here is a picture of the Brindabellas near my house when we came home yesterday afternoon (not bad for a picture from the back seat of the car!).
On this day: 4th of July in NYC
4th July 1918: The Untied States’ Independence Day is celebrated with a parade on New York City’s Fifth Avenue.
Behind the man marching is Cornelius Vanderbilt II House, on the corner of 57th Street, which was demolished in 1927 to build the Bergdorf Goodman department store
From the collection of the Library of Congress.
The Landowner’s Secret in the Library
Just a reminder that you can request your library to order in books that aren’t already in their catalogue. I requested an ebook version of The Landowner’s Secret for Libraries ACT and only just remembered to check if they’d bought it – they had!
There seem to be A LOT of stories about book piracy at the moment, but remember it costs nothing to join a library and you can have access to pretty much anything you want!
In Times Gone By... 