Blogs in August 2014

A God in every Stone 1st August 2014

July 1914. A young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land. She picks up a fig and holds it to her nose. Around her is a maze of broken columns, taller than the...

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Burnt Shadows 1st January 1970

‘Burnt Shadows’ is set in three periods, 1947, 1983, 2001 and in several countries – Japan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and New York – although others feature also.It is the story of the interconnections between the members of two families against...

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In the City by the Sea 1st January 1970

Hasan is eleven years old. He loves cricket, pomegranates, the night sky, his clever, vibrant artistic mother and his etymologically obsessed lawyer father, and he adores his next-door neighbour Zehra. One early summer morning, while lazing happily on the...

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