The Incomers 23rd March 2021
Mission-raised Ellie Amadi expects to live a dream life when she and her son Nat leave home in West Africa to join her white, estate factor, husband James in the Fife mining village of Hollyburn. In 1966 Fife, mixed...
Blogs in March 2021
Mating Birds 23rd March 2021
The story of a young South African black man obsessed with an English girl whom he encounters on the segregated Durban beachfront is told from the narrator’s prison cell in this classic African novel. Although no words are exchanged,...
The Dictionary of Lost Words 23rd March 2021
In 1901, the word ‘bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford...
A Room Made of Leaves 23rd March 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION It is 1788. Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her...
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