Blogs in December 2025

Vigil 2nd December 2025

Not for the first time – in fact, for the 343rd time – Jill ‘Doll’ Blaine finds herself crashing down to earth, head-first, rear-up, to accompany her latest charge into the afterlife. She soon realises however that this man...

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We Want So Much To Be Ourselves 2nd December 2025

A German psychoanalyst, his Jewish wife, and their young daughter are swept up in the rising tide of fascism Günter Zeitz, psychoanalyst-in-training and the son of a Catholic country doctor, and Josine Rosen, Sigmund Freud’s patient and the daughter...

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A Siege of Owls 2nd December 2025

An urgent and unforgettable novel that follows a young man’s coming of age in rural Nigeria as he bears witness to violence, upheaval, and hope in a rapidly changing society from the acclaimed author of The Liquid Eye of...

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Ghost-Eye 2nd December 2025

Varsha Gupta wants fish for her lunch. Her family can’t understand it; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don’t allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can...

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Abundance 2nd December 2025

Two generations of a Muslim Indian family grapple with what parts of life we control and what we must humbly accept in pursuit of the American dream–for readers of Min Jin Lee, Mohsin Hamid, and Ayad Akhtar In suburban...

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