Blogs in May 2020

Notes from the Lost 1st May 2020

In October 1943, POWs Alfie and Frank, jump from a train taking them to a German camp, into the Italian mountains. Hopelessly ill-equipped, their survival through the harsh winter depends on the courage and generosity of local families. The...

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Secrets of the Sea 1st May 2020

Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the...

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The Marsh King’s Daughter 1st May 2020

You’d recognise my mother’s name if I told it to you. You’d wonder, briefly, where is she now? And didn’t she have a daughter while she was missing? And whatever happened to the little girl? Helena’s home is like...

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Laurentian Divide 1st May 2020

Bitter winters are nothing new in Hatchet Inlet, hard up against the ridge of the Laurentian Divide, but the advent of spring can’t thaw the community’s collective grief, lingering since a senseless tragedy the previous fall. What is different...

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Vacationland 1st May 2020

On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge – only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing...

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