Blogs in January 2023

The Girl Who Left 1st January 2023

Twenty-five years ago, a local girl went missing. Now, another girl comes back… When five-year-old Elsie Button was snatched from a garden in a sleepy town on the Welsh island of Anglesey, and a local man later confessed, it...

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Becoming Ted 30th December 2022

Ted Ainsworth has always worked at his family’s ice-cream business in the quiet, fictional Lancashire town of St Luke’s-on-Sea. But the truth is, he’s never wanted to work for the family firm – he doesn’t even like ice-cream, though...

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I’m Sorry You Feel That Way 30th December 2022

THE BOOK THAT YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an...

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Siblings 29th December 2022

1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth – a young painter – the GDR is her generation’s chance to build a glorious, egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a place of...

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The View from Half Dome 29th December 2022

1934. Isabel longs to escape her squalid San Francisco neighborhood. While her mother struggles to make ends meet and her older brother serves with the CCC at Yosemite, she manages the household and comforts her younger sister with stories...

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