Blogs in April 2020

We Begin at the End 6th April 2020

With the staggering intensity of James Lee Burke and the absorbing narrative of Jane Harper’s The Dry, We Begin at the End is a powerful novel about absolute love and the lengths we will go to keep our family...

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Last Ones Left Alive 6th April 2020

Raised by her mother and Maeve on Slanbeg, an island off the west coast of Ireland, Orpen has a childhood of love and stories by the fireside. But the stories grow darker, and the training begins. Ireland has been...

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The Season of Change 6th April 2020

The Season of Change was previously published as Connections. Where do you go to solve all your problems? Where would you go if you were a singer fed up with the fame you never desired? Where would you choose...

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Two Thousand Seasons 6th April 2020

Trans Atlantic and African slave trades are the subject of Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons (1973) in which a pluralized communal voice speaks through the history of Africa, its wet and dry seasons, from a period of one thousand years....

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The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born 6th April 2020

A railway freight clerk in Ghana attempts to hold out against the pressures that impel him toward corruption in both his family and his country. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the novel that catapulted Ayi Kwei...

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