Blogs in March 2021

Kallocain 10th March 2021

This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab terror. Ironic and detached, the author shows us the totalitarian World-state through the eyes of a product of that state, scientist Leo Kall. Kall...

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Doctor Glas 10th March 2021

Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility...

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The Light Keeper 9th March 2021

Sarah stands on the brink, arms open wide as if to let the wind carry her away. She s come to the high cliffs to be alone, to face the truth about her life, to work out what to...

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Murder in an Irish Bog 8th March 2021

Too late to find a missing man, are Irish detectives in time to catch his killer? It is only a passing comment in the post office in a remote part of Western Ireland that alerts police to the disappearance...

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The Overdue Life of Amy Byler 8th March 2021

Overworked and underappreciated, single mom Amy Byler needs a break. So when the guilt-ridden husband who abandoned her shows up and offers to take care of their kids for the summer, she accepts his offer and escapes rural Pennsylvania...

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