Blogs in April 2025

Climbing in Heels 3rd April 2025

Beanie, Mercedes and Ella – a Valley Girl from LA, an English rose-with-thorns and a Kentucky blueblood, each denying their past while creating a future – together storm the boys’ club that is the hottest talent agency in 1980s...

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The Palace on the Higher Hill 3rd April 2025

Faysal receives a mysterious letter about the death of aunt he can’t remember. Leaving his lover and his life in Europe behind, he returns to the village of his birth in Palestine and to his family’s extraordinary, deserted house,...

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We Would Have Told Each Other Everything 3rd April 2025

In a series of three interconnected stories, Judith Hermann weaves together themes of psychology and friendship, unconventional childhoods, summers on the North German seashore and the act of writing itself. This is a literary narrative reflecting on when life...

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A Person is a Prayer 3rd April 2025

An intensely moving, lyrical and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades. Bedi and Sushma’s marriage is arranged. When they first...

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All That Life Can Afford 2nd April 2025

A taut and lyrical coming-of-age debut about a young American woman navigating class, lies, and love amid London’s jet-set elite. I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new. Anna first fell in love...

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