Blogs in February 2023

Brotherless Night 8th February 2023

Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war tears through her hometown of Jaffna, her dream takes her on a different path as she sees those around her, including her...

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Birthright 7th February 2023

A sublime psychological thriller from Polari Prize-shortlisted Charles Lambert. Sixteen-year-old Fiona inhabits a privileged world of English affluence, though her relationship with her widowed mother is strained. When she discovers an old newspaper clipping of a woman and her daughter...

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The Shadows of Seville 7th February 2023

A gripping and moving story of loss and love, of hatred and passion, and of horror and hope, set in Spain’s most evocative city during the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War and the following decades. Ramon flees rural...

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The Orphanage 7th February 2023

A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine If every war needs its master chronicler, Ukraine has Serhiy Zhadan, one of Europe’s most promising novelists. Recalling the brutal landscape of The...

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The Vienna Writers Circle 6th February 2023

Spring 1938 The Vienna Writers Circle meets at Café Mozart to share hopeful stories during a hopeless time. Mathias and Johannes – fellow writers, cousins, and close as brothers – thrive within this creative group of friends. But when...

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