Blogs in August 2019

A Summer of New Beginnings 2nd August 2019

‘Lisa Hobman has written a sparkling, enchanting romantic comedy, all in the bonniest of settings – I loved it’ Lulu Taylor, Sunday Times bestselling author. The stunning new story from the bestselling author of What Becomes of the Broken...

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Tom Jones 2nd August 2019

Fielding’s comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery’. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible...

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Reef 2nd August 2019

A single lighted match banishes Triton from his father’s home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and a Sri Lankan island’s disappearing reef. Stranded in London years later, Triton plumbs the...

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Noontide Toll 2nd August 2019

Vasantha is a van driver for hire, ferrying aid workers, returning exiles, and tentative entrepreneurs across the battle-scarred landscapes of Sri Lanka. The civil war is finally over, but the traumas of the past are still haunting. Behind the...

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The Sand Pebbles 1st August 2019

Recommended reading as part of the Chief of Naval Operation’s Professional Reading Program! This now-classic novel by Richard McKenna enjoyed great critical acclaim and commercial success when it was first published in 1962. The winner of the coveted Harper...

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