Blogs in October 2022

Where Roses Never Die 24th October 2022

September 1977. Mette Misvær, a three-year-old girl disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny, close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Curtains twitch,...

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I Know What You’ve Done 24th October 2022

On this street, everyone has something to hide. And now someone knows their secrets… Do you have any idea what the people you know are capable of? Bestselling author of All My Lies Are True, Dorothy Koomson, asks how...

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When We Left Cuba 23rd October 2022

In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana,a Reese Witherspoon Book Club...

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The War in Venice 23rd October 2022

“The last task of love is to protect remembrance.”  Venice 1938. Fausto’s ambition is to be a film star. Meanwhile he works for the fascist secret police. Elisabetta is being taught how to paint using the techniques of the...

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The Shining City 22nd October 2022

Everything that Qasim has worked for is about to be destroyed. His youngest son has fallen in love with the caliph’s favourite concubine, and if he is caught, he will suffer the death penalty and the rest of the...

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