Blogs in November 2018

Foam on the Crest of Waves 12th November 2018

A troubled young girl tries to become a mermaid to cope with her mother’s drowning in this sparkly modern twist on the classic Little Mermaid tale that explores love, loss and second chances. In a small fishing town on...

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Ordinary People 12th November 2018

South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution. Melissa has a new baby and doesn’t want to let it change her but, in the crooked walls of a...

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Tombland (The Shardlake series) 12th November 2018

Summer, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos . . . The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, rules as Protector. The extirpation...

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The Swooping Magpie 12th November 2018

The thunderclap of sexual revolution collides with the black cloud of illegitimacy. Sixteen-year-old Lindsay Townsend is pretty and popular at school. At home, it’s a different story. Dad belts her and Mum’s either busy or battling a migraine. So...

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The Piranhas 12th November 2018

In Naples, a new kind of gang rules the streets: the ‘Paranze’, the ‘Children’s Gangs’, groups of teenage boys who divide their time between Facebook or playing Call of Duty on their PlayStations and patrolling the streets armed with...

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