Blogs in April 2024

Estella’s Revenge 2nd April 2024

Barbara Copperthwaite writing as Barbara Havelocke You know Miss Havisham. The world’s most famous jilted bride. This is her daughter’s story. Raised in the darkness of Satis House where the clocks never tick, the beautiful Estella is bred to...

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A Night Full of Stars 2nd April 2024

A Night Full of Stars is the translation of an award-winning novel by V. Vinicchayakul, one of Thailand’s foremost novelists, and the author of over a hundred novels, many of which have been adapted for film and television. It...

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A Letter from Italy 1st April 2024

A heartbreaking wartime promise. A family torn apart. A letter that could change everything. 1945. The tiny bundle in her arms barely stirs as she hurries out into the dark street. Remembering Villa Teresa, a thousand miles away in...

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The Paris Muse 1st April 2024

Living with him was like living at the centre of the universe. It was electrifying and humbling, blissful and destructive, all at the same time.’ Paris, 1936. When Dora Maar, a talented French photographer, painter and poet, is introduced...

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The Helsingør Sewing Club 31st March 2024

Helsingør, Denmark, 1943 In the midst of the German occupation during World War Two, Inger Bredahl joins the underground resistance and risks her life to save members of Denmark’s Jewish community and help them escape to Sweden. Copenhagen, 2018...

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