Blogs in March 2021

Last Night at the Telegraph Club 28th March 2021

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America...

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An Emotion Of Great Delight 28th March 2021

From bestselling author of the Shatter Me series and the National Book Award-nominated A Very Large Expanse of Sea, Tahereh Mafi, comes a stunning novel about love and loneliness, navigating dual-identity as a Muslim teenager in America, and reclaiming...

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Forgotten Footprints 25th March 2021

A fast paced story of resilience against impossible odds, of courage and of love, set in 1711 on a dangerous voyage to a new life in Java. It is August 1711 and Annie Jansz is sailing from Zeeland with...

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Blue Watch 25th March 2021

1940. Along with millions of other London residents 15 year-old Jack Riley is evacuated to the countryside to escape a city threatened by German bombs. Jack manages to escape farm life and return to London where he joins his...

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Of Serpent Born 24th March 2021

Anitha has just turned sixteen. She is intelligent and studious, but she feels like a misfit amongst her peers at school and in her own extended family. Having lost her father tragically when she was a baby, she still...

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