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Everything is happening all at once - and it's great!
It’s launch day! I’m so excited!
Today my new novel, The Masterpiece, is out in the world!
In Australia and New Zealand, it’s available in print, ebook and audio.
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In the USA and UK, it’s available in ebook and audio with print to follow in 2025.*
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This novel has been a labour of love! I wanted to go next level in my storytelling and worked hard to deliver a novel that was not only entertaining but multi-layered - full of twists and turns, populated with spirited characters, and steeped in secrets.
I felt that in a year where a lot of us have been left feeling a bit ‘blah!’ we needed something to sweep us all away. I felt transported to another place when I wrote the story and it’s my greatest wish you feel that too as you read!
My lovely fellow historical fiction writer, Natasha Lester, predicted that The Masterpiece will be ‘One of the big books of the year’. So don’t wait a second longer to go get you pretty paws on it and start reading!
Details below:
A wartime betrayal, a race against time ... and a secret hidden in a painting.
The must-read new novel from the author of The French Agent and White Gardenia.
Paris 1946: A young woman, Eve Archer, has come to Paris to find Serge Lavertu, the father she never knew. But before Eve can find the courage to tell him who she is, Serge is arrested, accused of selling a French national treasure to Hitler during the war and murdering the original owner. Could Serge truly be guilty of treason or has he been set up?
Only one person knows the truth that might save Serge from execution: Kristina Belova, a beautiful Russian artist recently returned from a concentration camp and suffering amnesia. As Eve desperately prompts Kristina to recall what happened during the war, she uncovers a passionate love triangle and a secret about her own heritage that will change Eve's view of life forever.
'The Masterpiece is a triumph of storytelling. Its descriptions are painterly and its characters fascinating. With Paris, art, spirited women and so many tantalising secrets hiding in its pages, The Masterpiece is certain to be one of the big books of the year'
— Natasha Lester, New York Times bestselling author of The Three Lives of Alix St Pierre
'Belinda Alexandra is a master at keeping the pages turning'
— Herald Sun
'Alexandra excels at creating compelling female characters and placing them in richly imagined settings'
— The Australian
The Masterpiece in AUSTRALIA
The Masterpiece in NEW ZEALAND
The Masterpiece in UNITED KINGDOM
The Masterpiece in the USA
*All other language editions will be announced as they become known
New Covers for Old Favourites:
To coincide with the release of The Masterpiece, HarperCollins Publishers Australia have rejacketed Golden Earrings, Sapphire Skies and Silver Wattle. If you want to update your bookshelves, discover the books for the first time, or choose perfect books to give as gifts, find out more below:
UPCOMING EVENTS:
As well as the events below, I’ll also be updating all these events on my website belinda-alexandra.com and my social media, so be sure to follow me on Facebook and IG.
QLD
❦ Thursday, September 5th | 10:00 am
Victoria Point Library with Dymocks Brisbane
❦ Friday, September 6th | 11:30 am
Helensvale Library
NSW
❦ Wednesday, September 11th | 10:00 am
Literary Morning Tea with Belinda Alexandra
❦ Friday, September 13th | 12:15 pm
Dymocks Literary Lunch
❦ Saturday, September 14th | 3:00 pm
An Afternoon with Belinda Alexandra and Kyra Geddes
VIC
❦ Wednesday, September 25th | 6:30 pm
Belinda Alexandra in Conversation
❦ Thursday, September 26th | 7:00 pm
Belinda Alexandra in Conversation
NATIONAL
❦ Monday, October 14th | 8:30 pm
ONLINE: Book Queens Book Club Live with Jane Tara and Kyra Geddes
Things I am Loving This Spring
While getting ready for The Masterpiece tour, I’m actually quite deep into my next novel which is set in Italy in Pompeii, Positano, Naples, Florence and Rome.
Here are some pictures from my storyboard:
The new season of Emily in Paris
Yes, it’s a little cheesy and sometimes culturally inappropriate – but I LOVE the fashions and all the characters and their foibles. It always uplifts me to watch it.
Rereading Tilda is Visible by Jane Tara for BOOK QUEENS BOOK CLUB LIVE this coming September 9th
This book makes me laugh so hard that I scare my cats!
Cooking up a project with this talented lady – Kelly Morton of Looking Glass Creative.
More details about this soon - you are going to be amazed! Watch this space!
I hope this week is wonderful for you.
Love Belinda XX