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Alex Rosenberg

Alex Rosenberg's first novel, "The Girl From Krakow," is a thriller that explores how a young woman and her lover navigate the dangerous thirties, the firestorm of war in Europe, and how they make sense of their survival. Alex's second novel, "Autumn in Oxford" is a murder mystery set in Britain in the late 1950s. It takes the reader back to the second world war in the American south and England before D-day, France during the Liberation and New York in the late '40s. It will be published by Lake Union in August. Before he became a novelist Alex wrote a large number of books about the philosophy of science, especially about economics and biology. These books were mainly addressed to other academics. But in 2011 Alex published a book that explores the answers that science gives to the big questions of philosophy that thinking people ask themselves--questions about the nature of reality, the meaning of life, moral values, free will, the relationship of the mind to the brain, and our human future. That book, "The Atheist's Guide to Reality," was widely reviewed and was quite controversial. When he's not writing historical novels, Alex Rosenberg is a professor of philosophy at Duke University.

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Title:

Autumn in Oxford

Written by:

Alex Rosenberg 

Read by:

Justine Eyre 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

10 

Duration:

11 hours 53 minutes 

Published:

January 28 2019 

Available Date:

January 28 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781721353804 

Genres:

Fiction; Historical; Historical Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Brilliance audio 

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Format

Price

Bolinda price

AUD$ 49.95

AUD$ 49.95

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A poignant love story and a suspenseful thriller, which guides a man and two women from England to the US in an attempt to save the man’s life.

After being blacklisted for having communist sympathies as a student 20 years before, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Tom Wrought escapes America’s Cold War climate to teach at Oxford. There, he falls in love with Liz Spencer, a beautiful married woman. When Liz’s husband is pushed in front of a train in the London Underground, Tom is immediately arrested for the murder. Scotland Yard is convinced it has its man, as he had means, motive and opportunity. Certain of his innocence, Liz hires a young solicitor, Alice Silverstone, to defend Tom. But they discover that Tom’s former secret work as an American spy made him a number of powerful enemies. Russian intelligence, British counterespionage and even the FBI all may have reason to frame him. If Liz and Alice can find out who is behind the murder, they stand a chance of freeing Tom, but doing so puts all their lives at risk.

'Highly recommended to those who like English mysteries.'
Historical Novel Society