Julia Blackburn

• Nov-2025
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Longlisted for the Times/Chicken House CompetitionIn a world where ancient earth magic runs deeper than science can explain, one girl's journey may be nature's last hope.Twelve-year-old Belle lives in Whisper Valley, where dragonflies spin stones of ...

• Sep-2025
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Book 1 in The Songbird Choir Series.A magical wildlife adventure for ages 6 -- 12 about courage, friendship, and finding your voice. Ideal for fans of M.G. Leonard's Twitchers series and young readers who love animal heroes and nature-inspired storie...

• Feb-2019
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• Mar-2016
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Hubert is a solitary man who shapes his life by going to museums. He talks to few people and only about museums and art. When his neighbour downstairs, a lonely woman, tries to seduce him, he doesn't understand. He takes photos of the pictures he lik...

• Sep-2010
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• Apr-2009
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This is the moving story of three people: acclaimed writer Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas -- a poet and alcoholic with an addiction to barbiturates; and her mother, Rosalie -- a flirtatious painter with no boundaries. "Striking.... Colore...

• Apr-1999
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In this fascinatingly imaginative novel, Julia Blackburn has decimated all the rules, creating a magical tale that is part fable, part allegory, part present, part past, and wholly genuine and poetic. The unnamed protagonist has recently lost someone...

• Sep-1995
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In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping out fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. But is ...

• Apr-1993
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In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St. Helena for a surreal exile that would last until his death six years later. "A resonant meditation on exile, fame, the stories we tell about ourselves (and) the bigger stories we tell about our great figures....

From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.Billie Holiday's life is insepa...