Blogs in March 2024

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster 5th March 2024

SLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER. At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her...

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A Trace of Sun 5th March 2024

‘An unflinching look at one family’s experience of immigration, exploring mental health, identity and family’ Louise Hare ‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she bent over him; held him...

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The Landscape of Loneliness 5th March 2024

To find herself, Nina must first unravel her past. After eight years abroad, twenty-nine-year-old Nina returns home to Slovenia to attend to her ill father. Plagued by painful childhood memories, poor health, and a broken heart, she struggles to...

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The Orange House 5th March 2024

HENRY AND VIOLET FELL IN LOVE HERE. AND SO WILL YOU. Henry and Violet first met in the garden of The Orange House on the beautiful island of Majorca. They promised their lives to each other, poured their love...

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The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux 4th March 2024

Everyone knows Ruby Devereaux’s books. But no one knows her story… until now. From a teenager in wartime England to a veteran of modern-day London – via 1950’s New York, the Swinging Sixties, Cold War Berlin, Venice and Vietnam...

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