Madeleine D'Este

The Antics of Evangeline

1 - Evangeline and the Alchemist (Jun-2016)
2 - Evangeline and the Bunyip (Aug-2016)
3 - Evangeline and the Spiritualist (Mar-2017)
4 - Evangeline and the Mysterious Lights (Oct-2017)

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  Evangeline and the Alchemist
  

  • Jun-2016
  • / Steampunk
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  The Antics of Evangeline - 1
  

  Cream cakes and inventions. Fake gold and kung-fu. Meet Evangeline.In 1882, “Marvellous” Melbourne was flush with gold-rush cash and the British Empire’s second biggest city.Evangeline, a seventeen year old reformed urchin and acrobat, is settl...

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  Evangeline and the Bunyip
  

  • Aug-2016
  • / Steampunk
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  The Antics of Evangeline - 2
  

  Evangeline is back with another adventure with Balls, Bunyips and blancmange.In 1882, Melbourne is under threat from a fearsome Bunyip and The Argus announces a reward for the capture of the beast. But Evangeline is not afraid, this is a perfect chan...

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  Evangeline and the Spiritualist
  

  • Mar-2017
  • / Steampunk
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  The Antics of Evangeline - 3
  

  A sarcophagus, séances and seed cake. Evangeline is back with another adventure.Mrs Picklescott-Smythe’s mummy unwrapping soiree doesn’t quite go to plan, and for once it’s not Evangeline’s fault.Evangeline is a seventeen-year-old ex-urchin ...

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  Evangeline and the Mysterious Lights
  

  • Oct-2017
  • / Steampunk
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  The Antics of Evangeline - 4
  

  Lights in the sky. Magnets and letters. Old friends and new. Coming back from a Sunday at the seaside, Evangeline and her family witness three strange lights darting across the sky, manoeuvring in a most peculiar way.Melbourne is abuzz with rumours b...

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  Women of Wasps and War
  

  • Sep-2019
  • / Historical
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  Women of Wasps and War is a grim, gripping tale of power and politics, and the heart-breaking struggle between love and honour.Agata, the Duchess of Ambrovna, was never meant to take the throne. In a land where men rule, her sole purpose was to smile...

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  The Flower and The Serpent
  

  • Dec-2019
  • / Horror
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  NOMINATED FOR AN AUSTRALIAN SHADOW AWARD 2019Mysterious disappearances, a battle for the spotlight and terrifying nightmares.It's just another day at Beacon Hill High School. 

 Auditions for Macbeth are over, and on the bus ride hom...

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  Bloodwood
  

  • Oct-2020
  • / Horror
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  How do you fight a vampire… in Australia?Nothing interesting ever happens in sleepy, rural Ludwood. Not until undertaker Shelley sets up shop with her eco-friendly burials.Her latest funeral, farewelling an environmental legend, was meant...

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  Radcliffe
  

  • Sep-2023
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  A three-storey ramshackle house in North Melbourne is full of secrets. Tamsin is lead to the building by a voice inside her head - a voice that tells her 'Death is Coming'. With no respite from the eternal summer heat, can Tamsin find out who death i...

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