Blogs in January 2023

The Rose of Florence 24th January 2023

1478: Gianetta and Matteo have a happy life, working in service to the wealthy Rosini family. They are used to entertaining rich and powerful members of Florentine society in Palazzo Rosini, where Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici and Botticelli...

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A Wild & True Relation 24th January 2023

A thrilling feminist adventure story of smuggling and myth-making. ‘This book is a rarity – a novel as remarkable for the vigour of the storytelling as for its literary ambition. Kim Sherwood is a writer of capacity, potency and...

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Dead Set on Murder 24th January 2023

A detective investigates a seemingly impossible crime When Jennifer Parkes’s husband, Brian, disappears one rainy night, her world is torn apart. After years of fruitless searching, she gives up hope and gets on with her life – raising her...

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The Bandit Queens 21st January 2023

For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife… Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too. Geeta is believed to have killed her vanished husband – a...

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Syrian Sunset 20th January 2023

A sweeping novel of international intrigue about the Syrian Civil War, the failure of the West to save the Syrian people, and how that inaction against the Russian incursion in Syria emboldened Vladimir Putin to attack Ukraine In 2012,...

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