Blogs in May 2024

Light Over Liskeard 1st May 2024

Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he’s looking for somewhere to ride out what’s ahead. He buys...

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The Autumn of the Ace 9th November 2020

Louis de Bernières is the master of historical fiction that makes you both laugh and cry, in the perfect nostalgic read to escape with this autumn. Is it ever too late to change your story? Daniel Pitt was an...

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The Dust that Falls from Dreams 22nd May 2020

In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and...

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Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 1st January 1970

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of...

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Notwithstanding 1st January 1970

Notwithstanding is a fictional village somewhere in Surrey, England around the Haslemere and Godalming area. Endless humour with a real heart, it celebrates the mundane, the ordinariness and the quirkiness of english life in a beautiful village.

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