Blogs in April 2023

The Story of the Forest 18th April 2023

It’s 1913 and a young, carefree and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the edge of the Baltic sea and meets a gang of rowdy young men with revolution on their minds. It sounds like...

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A Stranger City 22nd April 2019

When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their...

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When I lived in Modern Times 1st January 1970

In April, 1946 Evelyn Sert, a 20-year-old East End London hairdresser, sets out for Palestine. “This is my story”, she writes, “Scratch a Jew and you’ve got a story”. Evelyn’s story in Linda Grant’s When I Lived in Modern...

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