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K.V. Martins

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Born

Sydney, Australia

Website

https://www.kvmartins.com

Twitter

@kimmar

Genre

Historical Fiction, Paranormal, Crime

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Daphne du Maurier, Susan Hill, Michelle Paver, V.H. Leslie

Member Since

October 2014

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Based in the lush Far North of New Zealand, K.V. Martins writes accompanied by the song of a family of boisterous tūī birds outside her window. She writes historical fiction, ghost and gothic fiction, as well as poetry.

K.V. Martins writes for an online history encyclopedia. She has a B.A. (Hons) in History and also studied archaeology and Egyptology.

She writes in between taking her crazy smooth fox terrier for long walks.

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Average rating: 4.06 · 35 ratings · 20 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Everything to Hide 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where Sunflowers Grow 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ashgrove Park (A Jack & Bea Mystery, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cats Dogs and Feathered Gods: A Poetic Journey Through History it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Jacaranda Street 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer Heat Cold Blood 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I'm 40,000 words into my new novel (my fifth). It's a mystery/thriller/romance set in the Far North of Aotearoa New Zealand in December 2007. It's a departure for me - it's not historical fiction and there's a large dose of romance.

Everything To Hide has had good reviews in Australia and here in New Zealand and is available via The Underground Bookstore and PaperPlus, Kerikeri. The constant need

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K.V. Martins rated a book really liked it Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4.5 Utterly preposterous plot but I found this book very entertaining (and isn't that what good books should do?). Lively characters, some fun moments, and the Agatha Christie-esque setting of the Orient Express. Not as twisty as some of her other no ...more
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K.V. Martins rated a book really liked it The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A little dated but I thoroughly enjoyed The Moon-Spinners. Romance & intrigue on the island of Crete. Can't ask for more! ...more
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K.V. Martins rated a book it was amazing All the Tears in China (Rowland Sinclair, #9) by Sulari Gentill (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Another great Rowland Sinclair story. I very much like the author's attention to historical detail. A rollicking good read. ...more
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K.V. Martins rated a book it was amazing The Offing by Benjamin Myers (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
What a stunning narrative. I loved every minute of this book - from the poetic prose to the touching friendship between a 16-year-old boy and an older woman. The narrator is the 16-year-old as an older man looking back at a summer in his life when ev ...more
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K.V. Martins rated a book really liked it The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds by Gina Butson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I rather liked this book. An accomplished writer and a very good debut novel. Great sense of the landscape (South America, New Zealand, Tasmania) being a character. I very much liked the focus on how guilt can affect the shape of our lives. A little ...more
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K.V. Martins rated a book really liked it The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds by Gina Butson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I rather liked this book. An accomplished writer and a very good debut novel. Great sense of the landscape (South America, New Zealand, Tasmania) being a character. I very much liked the focus on how guilt can affect the shape of our lives. A little ...more
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K.V. Martins rated a book it was ok Number Thirty-Two by Cassie Steward (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
DNF'd. Sadly, not a book for me. Didn't engage with Anna. Often it was plodding, slow. ...more
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K.V. Martins rated a book it was amazing Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman (2015-08-11) by Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Hoffman could write a menu and I'd give it 5 stars. Love, love, love her writing. This book was magical, atmospheric, strange, emotionally heartwrenching. It was published in 1992 and has real soul to it. I will read it again and again. ...more
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K.V. Martins liked Robyn Mundy's review of Three Juliets: "I LOVED this important story of a successful, high profile woman searching for the daughter she was coerced into surrendering for adoption at age 16. Powerful, heartfelt and tender, cleverly woven and artfully crafted, it is also the story of being a" Read more of this review »
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K.V. Martins rated a book it was amazing Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This flash novella was a bit of a wild ride. Very innovative. I liked it once I got into the rhythm & very much enjoyed the intense vignettes of marriage, daily & domestic life. Many of the story fragments were beautifully crafted. Offill is a very t ...more
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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