Blogs in February 2021

The Hot Country 15th February 2021

April 1914 and war correspondent Christopher Marlowe Kit Cobb arrives in Vera Cruz, Mexico, to cover the country’s civil war. A passionate believer in the power of a free press, Kit is no mere observer. He assumes a false...

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Paris in the Dark 16th September 2018

Autumn 1915. The First World War is raging across Europe. Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches, although that hasn’t stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher Marlowe ‘Kit’...

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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 1st January 1970

These fictional short stories capture the true experiences of the hardships of coming to America. With great sensitivity, Robert Olen Butler introduces us to the colorful lives of Vietnamese immigrants in Louisiana.

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