Blogs in December 2018

Summer in Baden-Baden 30th December 2018

One bitterly cold winter in the 1970s, Leonid Tsypkin’s obsession with Dostoyevsky leads him to Leningrad by train, so that he can see for himself where his hero died. As the train makes its way across Russia, a journal...

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A Funeral in Fiesole 30th December 2018

Paola, Nigel, Suzanna and Brod are four adult siblings whose mother has died at their old childhood holiday home in Italy. They gather for her funeral, bringing emotional and personal burdens that hark back to when they were all...

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Where the Crawdads Sing 30th December 2018

For years, rumours of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh...

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A Small Town in Germany 28th December 2018

West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing – along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of...

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Little Culinary Triumphs 27th December 2018

Sandrine Cordier works in an office, but her daily routine is in no way as dull. Sandrine is a volcanic woman, full of ideas and energy, and a world-class cook who wants to open her own restaurant. An opportunity...

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