Blogs in August 2024

The Baron Returns 21st August 2024

This is the first book in the Wentworth Family saga, about a family living in the Napoleonic times who are involved in Brittany and Devon because the mother, Sempronie, comes from a Breton family and has property there. The...

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Lady at the Lodge 3rd July 2024

This is the third novel in the saga of the Wentworth family. Rumours of a planned French invasion of Britain in 1796 have reached the British government. Amid the uncertainty, the Anglo-Breton Wentworth family continue to move forward with...

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About Uncle 1st May 2024

A freaky tale of isolation and the porous membranes between us, Rebecca Gisler’s slim novel renders a collapsing world with equal parts aversion, fascination, and tenderness–for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sayaka Murata. At an age when she’d rather...

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The Island of Mists and Miracles 11th February 2024

Sometimes the truth lies in the things you cannot see. In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Labouré was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for a sign. Which...

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Régine 30th July 2022

Published in 1990 in French original, this book is one of a pair by Rossi about his time in Nantes in Western France. For literary tourists Rossi names places that can be found. The very first paragraph speaks of...

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