Blogs in August 2024

Flight Behaviour 17th August 2024

Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change by global bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2010. “The flames now appeared to lift from individual...

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Demon Copperhead 6th September 2022

Demon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can. Demon’s story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking ‘like a little...

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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral 30th July 2020

“We wanted to live in a place that could feed us: where rain falls, crops grow, and drinking water bubbles up right out of the ground.” Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt...

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Animal Dreams 15th April 2020

As far back as she can remember, Codi Noline had felt an outsider in her hometown of Grace, Arizona. Her dispassionate father – ‘an obelisk of disapproval’ – had always kept Codi and her sister Hallie apart from most...

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Unsheltered 30th March 2020

Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family – or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them. Willa’s two grown-up children, a new-born grandchild,...

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