Blogs in April 2023

Mad Honey 15th April 2023

Olivia fled her abusive marriage to return to her hometown and take over the family beekeeping business when her son Asher was six. Now, impossibly, her baby is six feet tall and in his last year of high school,...

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The Lost Daughters of Ukraine 14th April 2023

Summer 1941. War rages in Europe. The Germans march towards Ukraine. Halya, Liliya and Vika are no strangers to sorrow. They lost family during the Holodomor, loved ones in Stalin’s purges, and war looms once more on the horizon....

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The Last Restaurant in Paris 14th April 2023

Paris 1944. To save her people, she served the enemy. In enemy-occupied Paris, as the locals go to bed starving and defeated by the war, music and laughter spills through the door of a little restaurant, crowded with German...

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The Island Villa 13th April 2023

A messy family drama and a steamy little romance unfold under the Mediterranean sun for the perfect summer escape… Celebrated romance author Catherine Swift has topped the bestseller lists for decades, though her personal story hasn’t been quite so...

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Roundabout of Death 13th April 2023

Jumaa is a schoolteacher in Aleppo. He observes and lives through the literal disintegration of his beautiful native city. Through his eyes, in a mixture of first and third person narration, we experience the razing of entire neighbourhoods, the...

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