Blogs in October 2024

The Eights 11th October 2024

They knew they were changing history. They didn’t know they would change each other. Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education...

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Nothing But The Truth 11th October 2024

Superintendent “Nipper” Read is that rarest of things: an honest Metropolitan police copper. His task force can bring down the Kray twins. The catch: Read needs barrister Charles Holborne to testify against them, while the Krays have evidence against...

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The Waxwork Corpse 10th October 2024

A deadly crime has been dragged to the surface… London, 1965 Charles Holborne, maverick barrister, will never fit in at the Bar; he is too working-class, too Jewish and too dangerous. But that makes him the perfect outsider to...

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The Swell 10th October 2024

In places of darkness, women will rise . . . Iceland, 1910. In the middle of a severe storm, two sisters – Freyja and Gudrun – rescue a mysterious, charismatic man from a shipwreck near their remote farm. Sixty-five...

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The Teller of Small Fortunes 10th October 2024

SMALL FORTUNES. BIG FEELINGS. Fleeing a troubled past, immigrant fortune teller Tao roams the dusty countryside with only her mule for company, telling small fortunes, for small prices. Big fortunes come with big consequences . . . which she...

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