Blogs in March 2022

Kyiv 5th March 2022

On Sunday 22nd June 1941 at 03.05, three-and-a-half million Axis troops burst into the Soviet Union along a 1,800-mile front to launch Operation Barbarossa. The southern thrust of the attack was aimed at the Caucuses and the oil fields...

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Edgware Road 4th March 2022

A wide-ranging and affecting debut novel about family and identity, from an award-winning historian. 1981. Khalid Quraishi is one of the lucky ones. He works nights in the glitzy West End, and comes home every morning to his beautiful...

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Summer Fever 4th March 2022

Two couples. One sweltering Italian villa . . . Nick and Laura are the hosts: pretending their marriage isn’t on the rocks. Madison and Bastian are the guests: neither is remotely who they claim to be. Under the scorching...

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Good Husbands 3rd March 2022

‘THE MOST RIVETING AND UNFLINCHING HE SAID/SHE SAID NOVEL TO DATE … ABSOLUTELY STAGGERING, INSANELY GRIPPING AND WHOLLY UNPUTDOWNABLE.’ MAY COBB, AUTHOR OF THE HUNTING WIVES Jess, Priyanka and Stephanie are all happily married to men they think they...

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Telex From Cuba 3rd March 2022

Set in Cuba just before Castro’s revolution, the novel tells the story of expatriates, most of whom work for the United Fruit Company. It is a coming of age story of two young people in the American colony in...

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