Blogs in August 2022

The Forgotten Promise 2nd August 2022

Malaya, 1920: Two girls make a promise in the shadows of the jungle. A promise that life won’t let them easily keep. Malaya, 1941: Ella is running her late father’s tin mine in the Kledang hills, while Noor works...

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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida 27th July 2022

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed...

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Tell Them My Name 27th July 2022

Dar Kumari is an indigenous Gurung woman living in the Nepali Himalayas with her elderly husband, Nar Bahadur. Their mud-brick house is in a remote farming village that has no electricity and can only be reached on foot. Their...

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A Map for the Missing 14th July 2022

An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post-Cultural Revolution China, A Map for the Missingreckons with the costs of pursuing one’s dreams and the lives we leave behind Tang Yitian has been living in America for...

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Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan 11th July 2022

Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics’ Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991....

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