Blogs in April 2019

One Summer in Santorini 30th April 2019

Sarah has had enough of men. It’s time to rekindle her first true love – travel – so she books a sailing trip around the Greek islands with a group of strangers. The very last thing Sarah wants is...

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The Oblique Place 30th April 2019

The discovery of photographs in an album – of her Spanish grandfather who joined Hitler’s Wehrmacht and her father in the uniform of Franco’s army- leads Caterina Pascual Söderbaum to explore her family’s links to some of the most...

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Summer’s Lease 30th April 2019

‘Amusing, entertaining … and a cracking good read’ Sunday Express ‘And summer’s lease hath all too short a date’ – Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare It’s high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan...

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The Pit and the Passion: Murder at the Ghost Hotel 29th April 2019

At midnight, in the darkness of a deserted hotel, comes a scream and a splash. Eighty-five years later, workmen uncover a skeleton in an old elevator shaft. Who is it, and how did it get there? To find out,...

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The Indigo Girl 29th April 2019

A deeply-researched and powerfully-written work of historical fiction, based on the untold story of Eliza Lucas, an extraordinary sixteen-year-old girl in Colonial-era South Carolina, whose actions were before their time: the story of the indigo girl. In 1739, bright...

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