Blogs in February 2022

The Slowworm’s Song 16th February 2022

By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a profound and tender tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving. ‘The writing is near perfect. But the novel’s excellence goes far beyond this ....

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The Crossing 22nd September 2015

Featured in Fiction: The Financial Times Best Books of 2015 She is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world’s curve and beyond that, everything else. The known, the imagined, the imagined known. Who else has entered...

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Pure 1st January 1970

Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery Les Innocents in Les Halles in 1785 is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer...

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