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Name of Book: The School of Night Author: Colin Falconer ISBN: 9781621252139 Publisher: Cool Gus Publishing Part of a Series: The William Shakespeare Detective Agency Type of book: William Shakespeare, Elizabethan England, 1593?-1594, family relations, mystery, acting, Kit Marlowe, strong heroine, comedy, daily life Year it was published: 2015 Summary: "My name is William Shakespeare. No, not that Shakespeare; and no jests please, I've heard them all. I'm the other one, the ne'er do well cousin, the loafer, known to family and friends as the dunce, the one who could not recite Cicero or Horace, who could never be as good as his clever cuz, the one who has just come to Bishopsgate from Stratford with silly dreams in his head and a longing to make something more of himself than just a glover's handyman." What he finds in London is Lady Elizabeth Talbot, who is willing to pass a few shillings to this blundering brawler if he will help her f...

Name of Book: East India Author: Colin Falconer ISBN: 9781621251798 Publisher: Coolgus Type of book: 1629, Dutch, shipwreck, survival, prisoners, opportunist, Australia, priorities, honor, taking advantage, water, food, wealth, society, lawlessness, experiment, murder, mutiny, rape Year it was published: 2014 Summary: In any other circumstance but shipwreck, rape and murder, a man like Michiel van Texel would never have met a fine lady such as Cornelia Noorstrandt. He was just a soldier, a sergeant in the Dutch East India company’s army, on his way from Amsterdam to the Indies to fight the Mataram. Such a woman was far above the likes of him. But both their destinies intertwine far away from Holland, on some god-forsaken islands near the Great Southland. When their great ship, the Utrecht, founders far from home, surviving the Houtman Rocks is the least of their worries. As they battle to survive and the bravest and the best reveal themselves for what they are,...

Name of Book: Naked in Havana Author: Colin Falconer ISBN: 9781621251026 Publisher: Createspace Part of a Series: Naked Series Type of book: 1958, politics, night club, love triangle, a small Gone with the Wind, Havana, Cuba, relationship, father/daughter relationship, fierce female protagonist Year it was published: 2013 Summary: You can’t find love. Love has to find you. 18 year old Magdalena Fuentes is lying naked next to her perfect lover when he tells her he is marrying someone else. It is soon clear her destiny lies with another man, even though she says she doesn’t believe in fate. But fate doesn’t care whether we believe in it or not... Havana, 1958. Magdalena Fuentes knows that Angel Macheda is the only man for her, even after he takes her virginity and then tells her he is engaged to someone else. She knows they are meant to be. So why can she not stop thinking about Reyes Garcia? From the moment I saw you, he says, I knew there would be no one el...