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Elisabeth Storrs

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Sydney, Australia

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Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Romance

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Elisabeth Storrs has a great love for the history - both trivia and the serious stuff. She is the award-winning author of the A Tale of Ancient Rome saga which was endorsed by Ursula Le Guin, Kate Quinn and Ben Kane. Now she’s hurtled centuries forward with FABLES & LIES, a novel endorsed by Olivia Hawker, set in WW2 Germany about the Aryan myth, crazy Nazi archaeology, and a race to save Trojan Treasure during the fall of Berlin. She is the founder of the Historical Novel Society Australasia. In 2020, Elisabeth headed the team that introduced the $155,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize to the ANZ literary calendar. She lives in Sydney with her husband in a house surrounded by jacarandas. She is also a member of the History Girls.

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	The Wedding Shroud (Tales of Ancient Rome, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 2,118 ratings — published 2010	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
	The Golden Dice (Tales of Ancient Rome, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 911 ratings — published 2013 — 10 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
	Call to Juno (Tale of Ancient Rome #3) 4.31 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 2016 — 6 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
	Dying for Rome: Lucretia's Tale 3.63 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2014	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
	Fables & Lies: A WWII Novel Based on a True Story 4.67 avg rating — 6 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

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In imagining the story of Dinah, the daughter of the biblical Jacob and sister of Joseph, Anita Diamant brings a minor character in the bible to life along with the concept of a sisterhood of women who support each other throughout the menstrual cycl ...more
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As an author who writes about Ancient Rome and the Etruscans, I enjoyed delving into Forsyth's book which re-imagines the Roman myth of the love affair between Eros/Cupid, the god of love, and the mortal woman Pysche (Psykhe is the Greek spelling). F ...more
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“This one will be demanding. She already knows her own mind. Lady Caecilia would have to be careful her husband did not overly pamper his little princess. Having a strong will was one thing. Being a brat was another.”
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“she’d feared she would have no more love to give. But she’d soon discovered that love was not finite. It expanded each time she bore another child. Arnth”
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“sometimes there has to be suffering to gain benefit. We must stand strong in adversity.”
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“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
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