Blogs in June 2024

Brandy Sour 19th June 2024

When it was built in the 1950s, nothing symbolised Cyprus entering the modern world like the Ledra Palace Hotel. In Constantia Soteriou’s jewel of a novella, the ambitions and shortcomings of the island’s turbulent twentieth century are played out...

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Summer Heat 2nd May 2024

1974. Melike should be happy: school is shut and her parents have stopped hosting parties for their rowdy political friends. But she’s scared. She can tell from her parents’ urgent whispers about prison, invasion and military coups that Istanbul...

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The Last Resort 18th March 2024

The unputdownable new thriller from the bestselling author of The Perfect Holiday, which will have fans of Lucy Clarke and T M Logan gripped. As soon as you first see the house, a former hotel in a picturesque enclave...

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Thirty-Eight Days of Rain 9th March 2024

“What matters more, your place as a daughter or as a mother?” Androulla is twenty-four and newly married when she learns that she is infertile. In a bid for Cypriot citizenship she is undergoing adoption by her stepfather, and...

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Secrets Under the Sun 28th February 2024

Secrets Under the Sun is a stunning romantic mystery by the sea, from Nadia Marks, author of the bestselling Among the Lemon Trees. The truth will surprise you . . . On the island of Cyprus, in the small...

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