Blogs in June 2024

The Accomplice 16th June 2024

SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH  Max Weill has never forgotten the face of Otto Schramm, a doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max’s family to the gas chambers. A NAZI...

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Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case 28th March 2024

A key figure in the politics and literature of Argentina, Rodolfo Walsh wrote his iconic Letter to my Friends in December 1976, recounting the murder of his daughter Victoria by the military dictatorship. Just a few months later, he...

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Not A River 13th March 2024

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024 Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes, they drink and...

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What The River Knows 11th September 2023

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything...

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The Stone Maidens 29th August 2023

For years, the best that young girls from the backwater village of Alta Gracia could hope for was a position in the Big House, home of the immensely powerful and politically influential Goyena family. So, when Señorita Delia Lugghi...

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