Blogs in December 2022

The Actual Star 29th December 2022

The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents—telling three powerful tales a thousand years apart, all of them converging in the same cave in the Belizean jungle. Braided together are the stories of a...

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Victory City 29th December 2022

In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa...

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The Last Kings of Sark 28th December 2022

Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer to give tuition to a rich local...

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Appointment with Venus 28th December 2022

The future is never certain… For over four centuries Armorel — let us call it an imaginary Channel Island — had been a haven of peace. With the fall of France in 1940, the island became untenable by British...

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The Lady of the Camellias 28th December 2022

The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation “One of the greatest love stories of all time,” according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!,...

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