Blogs in August 2022

Gifts Of The Peramangk 21st August 2022

In 1950s Australia, during the height of the divisive White Australia Policy, Virginia, a young Aboriginal girl is taken from her home and put to work on an isolated and harsh outback station. Her only solace: the violin, taught...

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Rose and the Burma Sky 19th August 2022

One war, one soldier, one enduring love 1939: In a village in south-east Nigeria at the brink of world, young Obi watches from a mango tree as a colonial army jeep speeds by, filled with soldiers laughing and shouting,...

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Last Summer on State Street 19th August 2022

State Street Chicago, 1999. One summer that changes everything. An unlikely trio: Felicia ‘Fe Fe’ Stevens, daughter of fiercely protective mother; Precious Brown, daughter of a prominent church Elder; and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin. They...

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The Birthday Girl 18th August 2022

Before she became a glamorous fashion designer, Ellie de Florent-Stinson was a trailer-park teen about to turn sixteen. But a night of birthday celebration doesn’t go exactly as planned and descends into a night she’ll never be able to...

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One Little Secret 18th August 2022

Everyone has a secret. For some, it’s worth dying to protect. For others, it’s worth killing. The glass beach house was supposed to be the getaway that Susan needed. Eager to help her transplanted family set down roots in...

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