Blogs in January 2019

Island on Fire 2nd January 2019

In the lush, tropical world of Martinique where slavery is a distant memory and voodoo holds sway, Emilie Dujon is caught between an unfaithful fiance and a life of spinsterhood. When the volcano known as Mount Pelée begins to...

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Race to Tibet 2nd January 2019

At a time when no Westerner has seen the holy city of Lhasa or met the Dalai Lama, French explorer Gabriel Bonvalot vows to do the impossible: he launches his own expedition to the Roof of the World with...

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Spy Island 1st January 1970

A Girl. A Deserter. An Island full of Spies. At the height of the Great War in 1916, Abigail Maduro arrives in the Danish West Indies to live with her Aunt Esther, a bad tempered spinster, and her houseful...

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