“Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss – Book Review GoodReads Rating: 4.65 Book Review of : Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss The cover art of Loretta. Goldberg’s Beyond the Bukubuk Tree, A WWII Historical Novel of Love and Loss, will entice …
THIRD AWARD FOR BEYOND THE BUKUBUK TREE: A WORLD WAR II NOVEL OF LOVE AND LOSS.
I am thrilled to share that Beyond the Bukubuk Tree is the 2024 Storytrade Book Award Winner for the LGBTQ Category. Congratulations too to the superb winners and finalists in other categories. Thankyou Storytrade. I am very grateful. Storytrade’s award supplements the novel’s earlier awards from The International Firebird Book Award for War Fiction in …
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Midwest Book Review, September 2024, by Senior Reviewer Diane Donovan of Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss
Dear Readers, I couldn’t be happier with this dive into my novel. Thank you, reviewer/ editor/ author Diane Donovan. A recommendation to libraries is precious. “Beyond the Bukubuk Tree Loretta Goldberg Home MadeGlobal Publishing 9788412232585, $4.99 eBook World War II novels abound and quite often include love stories amidst battles – so what makes Beyond …
A Highlight of my Papua New Guinea visit: Harvesting Brush Turkey Eggs, which is a Scene in my novel Beyond the Bukubuk Tree.
I had read, with fascination, that members of a Tolai tribe living on Matupit Island, which abuts Rabaul, had traditional privileges to dig up and sell at the market these rich eggs. The birds lay their eggs deep in warm volcanic soil at the foothills of Tavurvur, the active volcano I climbed. You can see …
Meet my friend and colleague, Faith Justice, to welcome the publication of REBEL EMPRESS, the fourth book in her series featuring the extraordinary Theodosian women
Faith, Thank you for introducing my readers and friends to these iconic women rulers who populate your novels. Let me say straight out that the longer I know you, now nine happy years, the more my admiration grows: for your writing, your passion for your chosen period, your publishing ventures with your own Raggedy …
Infinite thanks to Colonel (retired) Dr. Robert Likeman for permitting me to post hiis article on life as an army doctor. My protagonist in Beyond the Bukubuk Tree, Jake Friedman, is a fictionalized army doctor in 1941. Meet a contemporary one.
Dear Readers and Friends, Yesterday, I posted about my physician protagonist. Today, I am featuring Dr. Likeman, who had lived and worked in Papua New Guinea for several years. I was thrilled to meet Dr. Likeman in Melbourne last year, at the unveiling of the statue commemorating fallen Australian doctors in World Wars I and …
What does polio have to do with my World War II novel Beyond the Bukubuk Tree? Meet Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse.
This image of Sister Elizabeth Kenny, who developed a controversial treatment for polio, is from her service in World war I. My novel opens with Dr. Jake Friedman’s dream, set in Australia’s state of Victoria. He’s the on-call doctor at a district hospital. He dreams that he and three nurses get an urgent care call …
Two Review/Recommendations on LoveReading, an influential UK Indie Online platform.
Thank you Charlotte Walker and Linda Amos.https://www.lovereading.co.uk/book/27044/Beyond-the-Bukubuk-Tree-A-World-War-II-Novel-of-Love-and-Losss-by-Loretta-Goldberg.html LoveReading Says Available from Amazon. An emotional and compelling exploration of the Australian Lark Forces stationed in Rabaul during World War II. Jake Friedman is an idealistic young Jewish doctor from Melbourne, haunted by the death of a colleague injured on their way to a callout to try …
I talk to Nev March, award-winning author of a mystery series set in nineteenth-century India and the USA. Coming August 12: paperback edition of her third book The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret
Nev, welcome to my blog. It’s a privilege for me to introduce you to my readers. I’ve always admired your work. Congratulations on the success of The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret. Your biography states that after a long corporate career you returned to your passion for writing. From the outside, my impression is that you went …
Meet a character in my new novel Beyond the Bukubuk Tree
I took this photograph in Port Moresby on my last day there. My wonderful guide Jacob Eluap and his associates took my to the National Park. The dwarf cassowary is native and unique to New Britain Island and I had given one of my Tolai characters a dwarf cassowary as a pet. It’s an awesome, …
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