Blogs in January 2022

Sixty Summers 22nd January 2022

3 women who met in their 20s in London and travelled around Europe in a van are now 60 and have very differences lives. They decide to celebrate and rekindle their youthful trip but things just aren’t the same....

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The Quiet People 21st January 2022

Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful New Zealand crime writers, happily married and topping bestseller lists worldwide. They have been on the promotional circuit for years, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime like they...

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Around the World in 80 Books: A Literary Journey 20th January 2022

Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic’s restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from...

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Nightwood 20th January 2022

Lose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic. Nightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of American expats and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s – an...

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Riceyman Steps 20th January 2022

It is 1919 shortly after the termination of the 1st European holocaust. Henry Earlforward, a middle aged North London Bookseller, courts and marries Violet Arb, a widow who has inherited the confectioners shop opposite his own premises in Riceyman...

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