Blogs in November 2020

Into The Burning Dawn 5th November 2020

Twenty-one-year-old Imogen Fitzgerald was raised in an English orphanage and never knew her parents. So when World War Two breaks out, she refuses to leave the life she’s worked so hard to build for herself, teaching English to young...

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The Pirates of Pompeii 28th September 2020

It is AD 79 and Mount Vesuvius has erupted, destroying Pompeii. Among the thousands of people huddled in refugee camps along the bay of Naples are Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan the Jewish boy, Nubia the African slave-girl,...

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The Wolf Den 31st July 2020

An engaging, female-focussed novel set in ancient Pompeii, from an exciting new voice in historical fiction. The streets of Pompeii have a life of their own: the cries of the hawkers, the beauty and dirt of the crowds, the...

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The Last Days of Pompeii 5th June 2020

The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in...

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The Lying Life of Adults 1st January 2020

A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna’s pretty face has changed: it’s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing...

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