Fantasy Book Club – June 2013: Foundling by D. M. Cornish
Lisa Taylor
In June, we will be reading Foundling (Monster Blood Tattoo #1) by D.M. Cornish. Foundling won the Aurealis Award for Young Adult Novel (2006). Meet Rossamünd a foundling, a boy…
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