Blogs in June 2024

Tiananmen Square 22nd June 2024

A stunning, deeply moving novel about growing up in Beijing in the 1970s and 80s and taking part in Tiananmen Square protests It is Beijing in the 1970s, and Lai lives with her parents, grandmother and younger brother in...

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THE OTHER DETECTIVE 21st June 2024

A detective risks everything in a city on the brink… Days before the outbreak of World War II, chief investigator of the Danzig Police Force, Johan Tal, gets called out to investigate a brutal murder. The crime scene is...

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Daughter of Calamity 19th June 2024

1932, Shanghai. By day, Jingwen delivers bones for her grandmother, the exclusive surgeon to the most formidable gang in the city. By night, she dances at the Paramount, a lavish cabaret club, competing ruthlessly to charm the wealthy patrons....

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Overland 19th June 2024

It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime: the open road, London to Kathmandu, just three young people looking for adventure. No one could have predicted the way it ended, and for fifty years the truth has...

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Far 19th June 2024

In a housing development in the middle of the nowhere, one of the many that were built in Spain, but never finished because of the crash, lives a small community of neighbours, trying to lead a normal life, despite...

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