Blogs in March 2023

Talking at Night 18th March 2023

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way, but over secret walks home and late-night phone calls they become closer, destined to be one another’s great love story. Until, one day, tragedy strikes and any possibility...

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A Light Still Burns 18th March 2023

No. 3 in the Anatolian Trilogy There are three ways to face life: put up with it, fight or flee.’After eight years in Turkey, Gül leaves her native Anatolia and returns to Germany. Reunited with her husband Fuat, she...

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Ginger and Me 16th March 2023

Wendy is lonely but coping. All nineteen-year-old Wendy wants is to drive the 255 bus around Uddingston with her regulars on board, remember to buy milk when it runs out and just to be okay. After her mum died,...

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The Funeral Cryer 16th March 2023

An Yu’s Braised Pork meets Flaubert’s Madame Bovary in this unforgettable, tragi-comic tale of one woman’s mid-life re-awakening in contemporary rural China. The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because...

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Sisters under the Rising Sun 16th March 2023

In the midst of WWII, an English mother, Norah, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Malaya, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific, swiftly overrunning the Allied...

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