Blogs in December 2020

Afterlife 5th December 2020

Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then...

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The Chicken Sisters 3rd December 2020

In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi’s and Chicken Frannie’s have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state – and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has...

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Strange Flowers 3rd December 2020

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parents, Paddy and Kit, begin to accept that she’s gone forever. But she returns, changed, and with a few surprises for her family...

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Skin, Paper, Stone 3rd December 2020

People think that if they go far away they’ll leave the parts of themselves behind. But it doesn’t work like that. Stevie moves to Galway to pursue her PhD and takes refuge in the city, and in her relationship...

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A Shortcut to Paradise 2nd December 2020

A writer is murdered at the Ritz on the night she wins an important literary prize, battered to death with the trophy she has just won. A satire of the Catalan literary scene dressed up as a hilarious murder...

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