Blogs in December 2024

Bournville 24th December 2024

In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it’s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of...

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Vianne 19th December 2024

Secrets. Chocolate. A touch of magic… On the evening of July 4th, Sylviane Rochas scatters her mother’s ashes in New York and lets the changing wind blow her to the French seaside town of Marseille. For the first time...

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Rapture 19th December 2024

Ninth-century Mainz, in the heart of the Holy Roman Empire. Agnes is the motherless child of an English priest – a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. But when tragedy strikes, she is suddenly...

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Taipei at Daybreak 15th December 2024

In 2014, a veteran of Occupy Wall Street, QQ arrives in Taiwan and finally finds what he’s been looking for in the Sunflower Movement — a grassroots campaign of militant young people that looks set to overthrow the existing...

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The Stolen Queen 15th December 2024

Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. That is until an unbearable tragedy strikes. New York City, 1978: Nineteen-year-old...

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