Blogs in March 2022

Five Little Indians 10th March 2022

Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and...

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Paradais 10th March 2022

nside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor – an attractive married woman and mother – while Polo dreams about...

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The Memory Keeper of Kyiv 10th March 2022

A share of proceeds will be donated to DEC’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. In the 1930s, Stalin’s activists marched through the Soviet Union, espousing the greatness of collective farming. It was the first step in creating a man-made famine that,...

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Creatures of Passage 9th March 2022

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022. Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying ill-fated passengers in a haunted car: a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and...

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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian 9th March 2022

‘Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water,...

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