Blogs in July 2020

Edisto 10th July 2020

Simons Everson Manigault (‘You say it ‘Simmons.’ I’m a rare one-m Simons”) lives with his mother, an eccentric professor (known as the Duchess), on an isolated and undeveloped strip of South Carolina coast. Convinced that her son can be...

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On Leaving Charleston 10th July 2020

From the waning glory of the Old South… The plantation house, the lands, the golden traditions of Ashley Barony made it the pride of Charleston. But its fortunes fell violently, irrevocably, on Margaret Garden Tradd’s scandalous wedding day. To...

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Carolina Girls 10th July 2020

They were Carolina Girls, the best in the world, and they came together in the mid-Sixties on Pawleys Island, where life began to mold them into the women they would later become. Each summer they would return to Pawleys...

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The Garden of Monsters 10th July 2020

Set in the Maremma region of Southern Tuscany, this novel tells the story of two families against the backdrop of a rapidly transforming country. The Biagini are local ranchers, while the wealthy Sanfilippi belong to Rome’s upper middle-class. When...

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Lethal in Small Doses 9th July 2020

DUBLIN DETECTIVES RACE TO TRACK A SERIAL KILLER TARGETTING CARE HOMES When an elderly resident of a care home passes away during the night, little is thought of it. But when a routine investigation turns up an anomaly, suspicions...

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