Nazis – Spun Stories

Kate Quinn’s THE ALICE NETWORK narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

By Cynthia on March 31, 2021

Kate Quinn’s THE ALICE NETWORK is superb. Like many historical novels today, this one has a braided narrative, alternating between 1915 and 1947. Nineteen-year-old Charlotte “Charlie” Sinclair is looking for her much-loved […]

Simon Mawrer’s THE GLASS ROOM

By Cynthia on June 5, 2020

THE GLASS ROOM by Simon Mawrer is the story of a fabulous house (based upon the Villa Tugendhat in Brno) built in Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s for a young couple. When […]

THE BEAST’S GARDEN BY Kate Forsyth. Narrated by Jennifer Vuletic.

By Cynthia on March 16, 2020

I am a fan of Kate Forsyth. I love the way in which she takes folk tales and put a new twist on them. I loved Bitter Greens (her take on Rapunzel), […]