Blogs in December 2021

City of Wonders 26th December 2021

Eduardo Mendoza’s classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and unscrupulous Onofre Bouvila “Though historical in subject matter, this story of Catalonian enterprise and Barcelonan ambition is thoroughly...

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Hell Bent on Murder #1 26th December 2021

As I poured myself what was to be the last drop of Scotch in the bottle, I sat back in my chair, watching the pictures the neon lights up on the wall of the office. I reached for my...

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Kinmel Revisited 23rd December 2021

The cover is of St Margaret’s Church Bodelwyddan, North Wales. This is the home of five Canadian Soldiers graves, plus many more who fought bravely in each and every war! Today one could perhaps be forgiven for not noticing...

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The Commandant’s Daughter 23rd December 2021

1933, Berlin. Ten-year-old Hanni Foss stands by her father’s side watching the torchlit procession to celebrate Adolf Hitler as Germany’s new leader. As the lights fade, she knows her safe and happy childhood is about to change forever. Practically...

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The Last Checkmate 23rd December 2021

A PopSugar Best Book of the Year! Readers of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen’s Gambit won’t want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in...

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