Blogs in August 2020

Winter at the Light 13th August 2020

Forbes Lighthouse is a dangerous place. Twenty-year-old Molly McLaren agrees to tend the light when her father breaks his leg, so she leaves behind the city and her nursing career. Molly dreads the thought of three months as the...

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Tugga’s Mob 3rd August 2020

Waikato-born Judy Williams worked hard for her Big OE: London, Paris, Rome, Gallipoli. Her adventures were dutifully recorded in a diary. A trip journal that also details how the obsessive Tugga Tancred and his Kiwi mates turned Judy’s trip...

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The Exiles 21st July 2020

Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is...

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The Silence 19th July 2020

It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father, Joe, phoning from Sydney. 30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967,...

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Surf, Sweat & Tears: the Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst 18th July 2020

What really happened to Ted, Viscount Deerhurst, surfing professional, the “Lord on a Board”? Lee Child said: “I don’t usually read books about surfers, but this is like Truman Capote with shorts.” When I met Ted, he was a...

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