Blogs in May 2022

Chemical Cocktail 30th May 2022

Jaq Silver is back with a bang in this high-octane third novel in the series When Jaq Silver’s mother dies, she is handed a poisoned chalice. An inheritance more valuable to her than she could have imagined. Travelling from...

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Palmares 26th December 2021

AN EPIC TALE OF LOVE AND LIBERATION SET IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COLONIAL BRAZIL From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where fugitive slaves live free. But can this promised land...

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Backlands: The Canudos Campaign 19th July 2021

In Canudos, a backlands town in the Northeastern State of Bahia, Antônio Conselheiro (Anthony the Counselor) preached against the republic. His followers, leather-clad ruffians or ‘jagungos’, terrorised the countryside. In the 1890s the Republic of Brazil was in its...

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Brazilian Psycho 25th June 2021

(The São Paulo Quartet): 4 Over sixteen years, a diverse cast of characters live through the unfolding social and political drama, setting in motion a whirlwind of plots and counterplots: the murder of a British school headmaster and the...

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Here the Whole Time 7th June 2021

‘I love this book!’ Rainbow Rowell ‘… a tender, funny, absolutely heart-holding novel about a boy who is forced to share his room with his lifelong crush for fifteen days. It’s a gay romance that would have changed my...

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