Blogs in July 2021

The Last Library 29th July 2021

You can tell a lot about a person from the library books they borrow Library assistant June knows a lot about the regulars at Chalcot Library, yet they know very little about her. When her mum – the beloved...

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Larchfield 29th July 2021

In 1930, a young man, torn apart by his illegal desire, stands on a deserted Scottish beach. Wystan H. Auden is only twenty-four and longing to be a great poet; longing too, for someone who understands him. He scribbles...

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The Measure of Time 28th July 2021

The latest in the Guido Guerrieri series and shortlisted for the 2020 STREGA prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award. It is a tense courtroom drama set in Southern Italy, but also a tale about passion and the passage of...

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Deep As Death 28th July 2021

The second in a three-book series featuring Hella Mauzer, to follow on the success of Evil Things. A Nordic Noir of the first-order set in Helsinki in 1953. A dark psychological thriller about ruthless ambition, unrequited love and the...

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Summer of Reckoning 28th July 2021

Winner of the prestigious French mystery prize 2018 Grand Prix de Littérature policière. A psychological thriller set in the Luberon, a touristic French region that evokes holidays in magnificent pool-adorned villas. For those who live there year-round, it often...

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