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Mother’s Boy by Patrick Gale, beautifully penned novel set mainly in Launceston, Cornwall. I have long been a fan of Patrick Gale’s novels and this one is just – as expected – wonderful. It is the imagined story, using...
The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants by Orlando Ortega-Medina, a novel of unequal immigration rights, set in CALIFORNIA. The opening dedication in the book. ‘To the countless multinational same-sex couples forced to emigrate due to marriage inequality and to...
The Promise by Damon Galgut, novel set in South Africa (Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban). The death of Rachel Swart hurls the world into a flat spin for her young daughter. Amor’s father, older siblings and the rest of the household seem...
5 featured novels by women about women for International Women’s Day 2023. We have teamed up with Journeywoman Book Club to bring you five really terrific novels, all recently published. All written by women and featuring women cleaving their...
The Translator by Harriet Crawley, thriller set in MOSCOW. Clive Franklin is a Russian language expert for the Foreign Office (UK) and he is on a sabbatical in the Highlands. In fact, he is at Lochleven, which coincidentally recently...
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