Blogs in May 2022

Prague Spring 2nd May 2022

It’s the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent,...

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The Fall 1st January 1970

The novel embarks on a journey involving three generations of families shifting from various decades. Rob Dewar and his climbing partner, Jamie Matthewson, are clinging by their fingertips to the North Face of the Eiger, one of the most...

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Swimming to Ithaca 1st January 1970

After his mother’s death, Thomas finds a few clues about his mother’s time as a `military wife’ in 1950’s Cyprus and investigates, making certain assumptions based on his vague childhood memories

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Trapeze 1st January 1970

Please check detail of The Girl who fell from the sky as these are both the same book

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The Glass Room 1st January 1970

A wealthy young couple in depression-era Czechoslovakia commissions their modernist dream house and live there until personal betrayal and the Nazis arriving on the doorstep end the idyll. The Landauer House is based on Mies Van Der Rohe’s art-deco...

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