Blogs in August 2019

Heaven, My Home 19th August 2019

When the young son of an Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang captain goes missing, Ranger Darren Matthews has no choice but to investigate the crime. Following the election of Donald Trump, a new wave of racial violence has swept...

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Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59) 19th August 2017

‘Dazzlingly good … a seriously impressive writer’ Observer Southern fables usually go the other way around. A white woman is killed or harmed in some way, real or imagined, and then, like the moon follows the sun, a black...

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Black Water Rising 1st January 1970

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2010, and critically acclaimed in US and UK. The novel is set in 1980’s Houston where Jay (whos is a lawyer) and his wife Bernadine are on a boat on the bayou celebrating her...

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The Cutting Season 1st January 1970

Just after dawn, Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house in Louisiana that she has managed for the past four years. Today she sees nothing unusual, apart from some ground that has been dug up...

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