Blogs in November 2023

Blessings 6th November 2023

‘Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie When Obiefuna’s father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family’s apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village,...

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The Guernsey Girls 6th November 2023

January 1936. After the hard work of being a maid at Wallington Manor in the lead-up to Christmas, Annie is very excited at the prospect of going home to Bethnal Green. She has missed her family, but the money...

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Pelican Girls 4th November 2023

A historical feministic epic, for readers of Barbara Kingsolver, The Matrix by Lauren Groff and Maggie Shipstead’s The Great Circle. Paris, 1720. The Hospice of La Salpêtrière is overrun with ‘difficult’ women. Halfway around the world, on the American...

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Schindler’s Ark 2nd November 2023

In the shadow of Auschwitz, as thousands faced death in Nazi-occupied Poland, an unlikely saviour emerged. Oskar Schindler was a heavy-drinking, womanising industrialist who defied and outwitted the SS to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any...

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Maybe Next Time 2nd November 2023

Dan is Emma’s person. She’s known it since the first time she saw him dressed in lederhosen on the tube. On their fifteen year ‘dateversary’, Emma texts a list of everything she should have told Dan that morning. Tell...

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