Blogs in September 2021

Bored to Death in the Baltics 2nd September 2021

Bored to Death in the Baltics is a sequel to A Very Important Teapot. Four months have passed… When a bomb explodes in front of Dawson on a sunny Saturday morning in June, he considers himself lucky to escape...

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Dog Town 16th March 2021

PRIZEWINNER! #BEST NEW KIDS BOOKS 2018 Guardian pick. All Jacob wants is for a tall ship to sail down the street, right past his dining-room window … but now his wish has got him into big trouble. His dad...

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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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