Blogs in December 2020

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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The Man Who Spoke Snakish 24th March 2020

Unfortunately people and tribes degenerate. They lose their teeth, forget their language, until finally they’re bending meekly on the fields and cutting straw with a scythe. Leemut, a young boy growing up in the forest, is content living with...

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The Book of Riga (Reading the City) 2nd May 2018

Ten short stories written by Latvian authors and set in the country’s capital city…. A suicide attempt, staged to attract as much attention as possible, from the top of St. Peter’s Church, quickly evolves into an outlandish and absurd,...

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Darkness and Company 30th March 2018

Sigitas Parulskis is one of Lithuania’s most fêted and influential contemporary writers and recipient of the Person of Tolerance Award. Darkness and Company is ground-breaking: it tells the gripping story of a young Lithuanian man drawn into the events...

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