Spotlight: Evangeline and the Alchemist by Madeleine D’Este

Evangeline and the Alchemist is a new novella set in 1880s Melbourne with a steampunk twist.

In 1882, “Marvellous” Melbourne was flush with gold-rush cash and the British Empire’s second biggest city.

Evangeline, a seventeen year old reformed urchin and acrobat, is settling into a new comfortable life in Melbourne with her long lost father, Professor Caldicott. But learning to be a lady is awfully dull. Then one day, the police arrive, seeking the Professor’s expertise in catching an Alchemis...