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Hat trick

27 February 2016

9:00 AM

27 February 2016

9:00 AM

The Alchemy of Distance (trilogy) James Talbot

Available through Amazon.com in paperback and as Kindle e-books.

Kipling once wrote a poem lamenting that the three-volume romantic novel (‘The old three-decker’) was said to be extinct. It had, he wrote, an unequalled power to carry ‘tired people’ to another world.

Tasmanian author James Talbot has proved, in his trilogy, The Alchemy of Distance, that reports of its death have been exaggerated.

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