Blogs in October 2021

Everyday Magic 2nd October 2021

Carole Gunn leads an unfulfilled life. Once she was a promising archaeology lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, full of passion for her subject, and a love for the Neolithic sites of the Northern Isles of Scotland. But a...

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The Dragonfly Sea 1st October 2021

‘One of the most unforgettable books I have read in the last few years… What a writer! What a thinker! What a woman!’ Fiammetta Rocco From the award-winning author of Dust comes a magical, sea-saturated, coming-of-age novel that transports...

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Addressed to Greta 30th September 2021

Greta Jellings blushes and bumbles her way through her carefully ordered existence, forever constrained by what her mother would have said and done. ‘No expectation, no disappointment’ was one of her mother’s mantras. It serves Greta well too. It...

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Empires of Bronze: The Shadow of Troy 30th September 2021

The war at Troy has raged for ten years. Its final throes will echo through eternity… 1258 BC: Surrounded and outnumbered by the army of Agamemnon, King Priam and his Trojan forces fight desperately to defend their city. In...

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Hitchhiking Across America: 1963 29th September 2021

Nick is a nineteen-year-old college student at UC Berkeley who quits his Lake Tahoe summer job to see America and meet Americans, face-to-face, hitching rides from Tahoe to Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami, New York City, and points in-between....

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