Blogs in February 2021

The Old Enemy 17th February 2021

Ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson has been tasked with secretly guarding a gifted young woman, Zoe Freemantle. He is just beginning to tire of the job when he is attacked in the street by a freakish looking knifeman. It’s clear...

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Distant Fathers 15th January 2021

This singular autobiography unfurls from author Marina Jarre’s native Latvia during the 1920s and 30s, and expands southward to the Italian countryside. In distinctive writing as poetic as it is precise, Jarre depicts an exceptionally multinational and complicated family:...

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Between Shades Of Gray 10th January 2021

The haunting and powerful Second World War novel by Ruta Sepetys that inspired the feature film, ASHES IN THE SNOW, OUT NOW. One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards,...

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Death in Tallinn 23rd December 2020

A senior policeman falls from a viewpoint to be impaled on the roof of a kiosk below. Chief Inspector Juri Hallmets and his team encounter a widow who’s not mourning, a family who may be up to no good,...

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The Unravelling Of Maria 15th December 2020

Lovers separated by the Iron Curtain. Two women whose paths should never have crossed. A remarkable journey that changes all of their lives. Maria’s history is a lie. Washed up on the shores of Sweden in 1944, with no...

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