Bernard was born in Scotland to a Scottish father and a German mother. He has lived in New Zealand for most of his life apart from travel to Germany, the UK and the USA. He is a graduate of the University of Otago (Geography) and the Auckland University of Technology (Creative Writing). His first novel, Schist, was published in New Zealand and he has had poetry published in various journals. Bernard enjoys teaching, reading, photography and hiking. He lives in Christchurch, New Zealand with his wife.
This story is set in Germany at the start of the First World War and follows Klaus, a quiet astronomer of Jewish background, who spends his time with a telescope in an observatory on the edge of town. There he meets an independent young woman from a well-to-do background whose desire for a career of...
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