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		<title>&#8220;The Cadence of Gypsies&#8221; on its way&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/12/03/the-cadence-of-gypsies-on-its-way</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here comes another book to add to my Big Fat List of Voynich novels: the just-about-released-any-day-now The Cadence of Gypsies by Barbara Casey. It has a fairly straightforward setup: On her 18th birthday Carolina Lovel learned that she was adopted and was given a letter written by her birth mother in an unknown language. After years of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here comes another book to add to my Big Fat List of Voynich novels: the just-about-released-any-day-now The Cadence of Gypsies by Barbara Casey. It has a fairly straightforward setup:
On her 18th birthday Carolina Lovel learned that she was adopted and was given a letter written by her birth mother in an unknown language. After years of research [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of Christopher Harris&#8217; &#8220;Mappamundi&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/20/review-of-christopher-harris-mappamundi</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, moving straight into confessional mode, I feel more than a touch ashamed that I haven&#8217;t reviewed Chris Harris&#8217; Mappamundi loooong before now. But&#8230; even though I&#8217;ve read it twice, I still don&#8217;t really know what to say about it. Let me explain&#8230; Sticking to the knitting, it&#8217;s a fairly trite starting point to note that it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[OK, moving straight into confessional mode, I feel more than a touch ashamed that I haven&#8217;t reviewed Chris Harris&#8217; Mappamundi loooong before now. But&#8230; even though I&#8217;ve read it twice, I still don&#8217;t really know what to say about it. Let me explain&#8230;
Sticking to the knitting, it&#8217;s a fairly trite starting point to note that it&#8217;s an [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of Bill Napier&#8217;s &#8220;Shattered Icon&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/17/review-of-bill-napiers-shattered-icon</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/17/review-of-bill-napiers-shattered-icon#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carrying on with (what is rapidly turning into) Cipher Mysteries BookFest &#8217;10, I&#8217;ve had Bill Napier&#8217;s (2003) &#8220;Shattered Icon&#8221; on my list of Voynich-related novels for simply ages, so a review is somewhat overdue. Napier, a &#8220;Scottish astronomer who lives in Ireland and has a professorship in Wales&#8220;, was so engaged by rumours of a 16th century [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Carrying on with (what is rapidly turning into) Cipher Mysteries BookFest &#8217;10, I&#8217;ve had Bill Napier&#8217;s (2003) &#8220;Shattered Icon&#8221; on my list of Voynich-related novels for simply ages, so a review is somewhat overdue. Napier, a &#8220;Scottish astronomer who lives in Ireland and has a professorship in Wales&#8220;, was so engaged by rumours of a 16th century [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Charlemagne Pursuit&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/15/review-of-the-charlemagne-pursuit</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/15/review-of-the-charlemagne-pursuit#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my opinion, cipher mystery-themed airport novels tend (as I wrote here a few days ago) to be written by (1) &#8220;Rack Pack&#8221; writers, (2) &#8220;Domain Experts&#8221;, or (3) &#8220;Wannabe Screenwriters&#8221;. Having read Steve Berry&#8217;s book &#8220;The Templar Legacy&#8221; (2006) as a warm-up, I recently moved on to his &#8220;The Charlemagne Pursuit&#8221; (2008), where the serial [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In my opinion, cipher mystery-themed airport novels tend (as I wrote here a few days ago) to be written by (1) &#8220;Rack Pack&#8221; writers, (2) &#8220;Domain Experts&#8221;, or (3) &#8220;Wannabe Screenwriters&#8221;. Having read Steve Berry&#8217;s book &#8220;The Templar Legacy&#8221; (2006) as a warm-up, I recently moved on to his &#8220;The Charlemagne Pursuit&#8221; (2008), where the serial [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;That&#8217;s Life, Samara Brooks&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/12/thats-life-samara-brooks</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/12/thats-life-samara-brooks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something a bit unexpected: a teen novel built around school rivalries, DNA testing, the Voynich Manuscript and the Phaistos Disc. Due to come out in February 2010, could &#8220;That&#8217;s Life, Samara Brooks&#8221; be the first properly crossover Voynich-themed book to add to the Cipher Mysteries Big Fat List? I&#8217;ll be sure to get a copy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something a bit unexpected: a teen novel built around school rivalries, DNA testing, the Voynich Manuscript and the Phaistos Disc. Due to come out in February 2010, could &#8220;That&#8217;s Life, Samara Brooks&#8221; be the first properly crossover Voynich-themed book to add to the Cipher Mysteries Big Fat List? I&#8217;ll be sure to get a copy [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Other Euro Voynich books&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/05/other-euro-voynich-books</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/05/other-euro-voynich-books#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just blogged on up-to-the-minute German Voynichiana, what of the rest of Europe? Here&#8217;s a quick sampling to whet your appetite, should you ever wish to feast on such morcels&#8230; (2008) El castillo de las estrellas Enrique Joven [mentioned here] Having worked with Enrique recently (he generously translated my History Today telescope article so that it could appear [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Having just blogged on up-to-the-minute German Voynichiana, what of the rest of Europe? Here&#8217;s a quick sampling to whet your appetite, should you ever wish to feast on such morcels&#8230;

(2008) El castillo de las estrellas Enrique Joven [mentioned here]

Having worked with Enrique recently (he generously translated my History Today telescope article so that it could appear in Astronomia [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>German Voynich books&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/04/german-voynich-books</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/04/german-voynich-books#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While adding categories to some old blog posts just now, up popped a mention of the Karlsruhe Virtual Katalog (KVK). I normally use KVK to find specific non-fiction holdings: but today I wondered what otherwise-unknown Voynich masterpieces it might be able to tell me about. At Dennis Stallings&#8217; prompting, I&#8217;ve just started to add non-English Voynich novels to my Big Fat List, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[While adding categories to some old blog posts just now, up popped a mention of the Karlsruhe Virtual Katalog (KVK). I normally use KVK to find specific non-fiction holdings: but today I wondered what otherwise-unknown Voynich masterpieces it might be able to tell me about. At Dennis Stallings&#8217; prompting, I&#8217;ve just started to add non-English Voynich novels to my Big Fat List, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;The Voynich Enigma&#8221; just released&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/13/the-voynich-enigma-just-released</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/13/the-voynich-enigma-just-released#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wah, looky heyuh &#8211; it&#8217;s another Voynich novel to add to my big fat list. Retired chemical industry R&#38;D / sales guy Baz Cunningham will be signing copies of his third novel &#8220;The Voynich Enigma&#8221; next Saturday morning (15th Nov 2008) in New Martinsville, WV. In the book, a couple of sharp-witted cousins find the key to the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Wah, looky heyuh &#8211; it&#8217;s another Voynich novel to add to my big fat list. Retired chemical industry R&amp;D / sales guy Baz Cunningham will be signing copies of his third novel &#8220;The Voynich Enigma&#8221; next Saturday morning (15th Nov 2008) in New Martinsville, WV.
In the book, a couple of sharp-witted cousins find the key to the VMs [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich-related novel reviews&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/09/voynich-related-novel-reviews</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/09/voynich-related-novel-reviews#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In much the same way that the Voynich Manuscript has provided a blank screen for generations of amateur cryptologists to project their code-breaking desires onto, it has in recent years provided a rich loam for writers to plant their novelistic seeds into. In the bad old days of novel-writing, the VMs would simply have been [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In much the same way that the Voynich Manuscript has provided a blank screen for generations of amateur cryptologists to project their code-breaking desires onto, it has in recent years provided a rich loam for writers to plant their novelistic seeds into.
In the bad old days of novel-writing, the VMs would simply have been treated [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich Vampire novel&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/04/voynich-vampire-novel</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/04/voynich-vampire-novel#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogger &#8220;Frog Princess&#8221; spent a Sunday in Oxford taking randomesque pictures of flowers, muffins, shoes and cherry beer (sounds like an OK day to me), while thinking about vampires: her blog entry received a comment by &#8220;seraphim_grace&#8221; mentioning yet another Voynich book I hadn&#8217;t heard previously heard of&#8230; &#8220;Deliver Us From Evil&#8221; (2000) by Brit [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Blogger &#8220;Frog Princess&#8221; spent a Sunday in Oxford taking randomesque pictures of flowers, muffins, shoes and cherry beer (sounds like an OK day to me), while thinking about vampires: her blog entry received a comment by &#8220;seraphim_grace&#8221; mentioning yet another Voynich book I hadn&#8217;t heard previously heard of&#8230;
&#8220;Deliver Us From Evil&#8221; (2000) by Brit author [...]]]></content:encoded>
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