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'Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer.' - Peter Corris, The Australian 'Some men don't fall in love, they get lost. I was lost from the moment I saw Anastasia Romanov in the taxi club that first night ...' When Michael Sheridan jumped into the Whangpoa River to save a woman he had met in one of Shanghai's taxi clubs, his life changed irrevocably. A Russian refugee, Anastasia Romanov bears an uncanny resemblance to the princess of the same name, who was rumoured to have survived the brutal murder of her family at the hands of Bolshevik revolutionaries. The fate of the last Czar's youngest daughter has become one of the most talked about mysteries of the time, but Michael's Anastasia is suffering from traumatic amnesia and remembers nothing of her life before Shanghai. So who is she? Unraveling the mystery of Anastasia's identity and past takes them both from the streets of Shanghai to the decadence of pre-war Berlin, from the London of flappers and Charlestons, behind the grim curtain of Bolshevik Russia and finally to New York just before the Wall Street crash. 'Falconer weaves a pacy story of obsession, love, greed and corruption ... Really well done.' - Sydney Morning Herald
- Sales Rank: #2666725 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Cool Gus Publishing
- Published on: 2013-01-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .68" w x 6.00" l, .89 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 270 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
About the Author
Colin Falconer emigrated to Australia where he helped a mate establish a new advertising agency. Colin went to Sydney and worked in TV and radio and freelanced for many of Australia's leading newspapers and magazines. But he got his dream, publishing over a dozen novels in the UK and US and having his work sold into translation in Brazil, Belgium, the Czech republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain and Turkey. He lived for many years in the beautiful Margaret River region in WA, and helped raise two beautiful daughters with his late wife, Helen. While writing, he also worked in the volunteer ambulance service. "I'd be at my desk typing, then thirty minutes later I might be crawling into an overturned car or running along a beach with the oxygen for a near drowning. It was an interesting time." His marriage ended in tragic circumstances, a story he has told in 'The Naked Husband,' and its non-fiction sequel, 'The Year We Seized the Day,' written with a writing partner, Elizabeth Best. He travels regularly to research his novels and his quest for authenticity has led him to run with the bulls in Pamplona, pursue tornadoes across Oklahoma and black witches across Mexico, go cage shark diving in South Africa and get tear gassed in a riot in La Paz. (He was actually trying to cycle down the Death Road. In the end he had to abandon the attempt and take the bus down.) He also completed a nine hundred kilometre walk of the camino in Spain. Then he published SILK ROAD, and got a three book contract in London, and his love affair for life and for writing returned. "For me, the two things are inseparable. My passion for one infects the other." His fiction comes from dedicated research and what he calls a quest for Hemingway's ghost; characters with a passion for life, for love and the courage to face down their demons. You can now find Colin's books on Kindle where his entire list will be available by the end of the year; SILK ROAD was published in hardback and paperback by Corvus-Atlantic in London in 2011 and his new novel STIGMATA has just been released.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A sweeping landscape of our early twentieth century world
By Dianna Rostad
If you've ever wanted to walk the streets of early twentieth century Shanghai, Berlin, London, or New York, then you will love the wide landscape of this novel. All the big cities come to life with all the political and economic intricacies of that time. From the grittiest of inhabitants, to the most decadent and smug, Falconer gives you a view into the turmoil of the Great War without clubbing you over the head with a clunky recitation of history.
Michael is a self-made journalist unwilling to be tethered to his family's fortune back in New York. He falls instantly for Anastasia, a prostitute who looks like Anastasia Romanov, the murdered daughter of the Czar. The mystery of her identity pulls them apart repeatedly, as Anastasia longs for her elusive past and the grand life of a Duchess. A privileged existence that Michael repudiates. Cruel love and chance encounters through years and long distance have you turning pages and hoping for the best.
A well paced read that I enjoyed, not only for the authentic portrayal of the cities, but also for the aching love story that plays out amongst the events of the early twentieth century.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Is She Or Isn't She?
By gayle pace
anastasia (famous women's series)
by colin falconer
"Falconer's grasp of his period and places is almost flawless...He's my kind of writer." The Australian (from front cover)
"Falconer weaves a pacy story of obsession, love, greed and corruption....Really well Done" ....Sydney Morning Herald (from back cover)
BLURB:
"Some men don't fall in love, they get lost. I was lost from the moment I saw Anastasia Romanov in the taxi club that first night..."
When Michael Sheridan jumped into the Whangpoa River to save a woman he had met in one of Shanghai's taxi clubs, his life changed irrevocably. A Russian refugee, Anastasia Romanov bears an uncanny resemblance to the princess of the same name, who was rumoured to have survived the brutal murder of her family at the hands of Bolshevik revolutionaries.
The fate of the last Czar's youngest daughter has become one of the most talked about mysteries of the time, but Michael's Anastasia is suffering from traumatic amnesia and remembers nothing of her life befoare Shanghai. So who is she?
Unraveling the mystery of Anastasia's identity and the past takes them both from the streets of Shanghai to the decadence of pre- war Berlin, from the London of flappers and Charlestons, behind the grim curtain of Bolshevik Russia and finally to New York just before the Wall Street crash.
OVERVIEW:
Shanghai, 1921,Michael was a self made journalist. He wanted no ties
to his family's fortune back in New York.
Anastasia is a prostitute who looks like Anastasia Romanov, the daughter of the Czar, who had been murdered. For Anastasia to have survived the last Russian Czar was mysterious at the least. Besides she suffered from amnesia. How could she possibly remember that she had been a duchess?
Trying to make sense of her past and what her true identity is Michael and Anastasia go from Shanghai to pre-war Berlin and London, from Bolshevik Russia to New York, just before the Wall Street crash. Anastasia feel Michael is the only person who has never wanted anything in return, for helping her. Can she possibly be that Duchess? Can she give all that up for Michael and a chance for love.?
I think this was a good love story. Not the 'mushy' kind, but a good love story.
I would recommend this book to anyone. Read the book and draw your own conclusions. Everyone sees things differently.
I'll give the book 3.5 Stars.
I received this complimentary copy of ANASTASIA by Colin Powell from the author for this unbiased review.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Chasing the pot of gold at the end of the Romanov rainbow
By Amos Williams
Colin Falconer has written a fascinating variation on the Anastasia myth. The world knows that Czar Nicolas of Russia and his family all died in that cellar on the night of 7/17/18 in Ekaterinberg, since their skeletal remains were dug out of that mine shaft some years ago and DND evidence proved that. However, as Colin writes, "To shoot princes in secret in a cellar, you invite imposters and rumor mongering." And you invite pretenders popping up claiming that the execution squad couldn't shoot straight, and subsequently playwrights and novelists were inspired to dramatize their stories, racking in a lot of lucre. In the context of the 1920s, there was wild speculation that the Bolsheviks couldn't hold onto power and the Romanov dynasty would be reinstated. There was also the prospect for these pretenders to grab the pot of gold that the Czar had deposited in the Bank of England. There were 8 Tzarevichs and 5 Anastasias who popped up all cutting a swath through the capitals of Europe. The most prominent Anastasia was the Polish peasant Anna Anderson, who gained the most notoriety and a circle of hangers-on. This imposter is disparagingly referred to several times in Colin's novel. "She doesn't look like Anastasia and I do," Colin's heroine cattily remarks.
Colin has brilliantly recycled the Anastasia legend in creating his own engrossing version of a fictional pretender, a novel which could serve as the basis for a wonderful film. (Ingrid Bergman won the Oscar for Anastasia in 1957, playing Anna Anderson.) In Colin's novel, his hero is Michael Sheridan, an American journalist working in Shanghai in 1921, who meets a Russian �migr�, stateless and without papers, working as a dancer and prostitute in a dance hall. He has a one night stand with her and later dives into the Whangpoa River to save her from suicide. Colin spins a page turning saga as Michael falls under her spell and their romance and intertwining lives carries them through stormy vicissitudes against the fabled locales of Berlin, London and New York City in the Roaring Twenties. Besides Michael, Anastasia gets mixed up with the swindler and cross-dressing Russian exile Count Andrei Banischevski, and then the rich Russian Jew �migr� Felix Rifkin, but it is always the charismatic Michael that she carries a torch for. Being an enigmatic wannabe princess gives her cachet and a certain allure. This Anastasia Romanov, working as a prostitute and then as a drab law secretary, comes to believe that she really is the Grand Duchess. Well, why not, It's certainly a nice thing to believe for sure.
Colin has a gift for writing about fascinating women, his take on Queen Isabella (ISABELLA BRAVEHEART OF FRANCE) is outstanding, and his talent is on full display in ANASTASIA, with sharp characterizations, clever dialogue, and his ability to evoke period details and the political currents of those long-lost times, which are all vividly described. The reader gets a tingly feel of what it must have been like to go mucking about in cafes, dives and speakeasies in those major cities of the world back in the Roaring Twenties. The Wall Street crash of 1929, deeply affecting the lives of Anastasia and the men in her life, brings Colin's story to a dramatic denouement. I highly recommend this compelling novel.
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