Blogs in March 2020

Salamanca 26th March 2020

Dean Alfar’s first novel is about the sorcery wrought by love, lust, and literature, by friendship, family, and the Filipino nation. Salamanca streaks across decades and spaces, tracking the stormy relationship between polymorphous-perverse Gaudencio Rivera, whose passions ignite prodigious...

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Orchid House 26th March 2020

Love in a foreign land. A decaying hacienda full of secrets. And a woman searching for the story of her life. A funeral and some family business–that’s what Julia Bentley expects when she travels to the Philippines to bury...

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Lola: A Ghost Story 26th March 2020

Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother – a woman who used her visions to help those...

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The Last Time I Saw Mother 26th March 2020

“AN OFTEN LYRICAL AND ALWAYS TOUGH-MINDED DEBUT . . . Provides rare insight into the three cultures–Spanish, Chinese, and Filipino–that coexist in the Philippines.” –The New York Times Book Review Caridad’s mother never writes. So when a letter arrives...

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Gambian Bluff (SAS Operation) 25th March 2020

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can just three members of the SAS quell a rebel uprising? July 1981: while Gambian President Jawara attends a royal wedding in London, Marxist rebels seize power. Fearing armed intervention from neighbouring Senegal, they...

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