Blogs in January 2021

Floodland 24th January 2021

Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2001, Marcus Sedgwick’s powerful debut novel about surviving in a sinking world marks the beginning of the author’s multi-award-winning career. Imagine that a few years from now England is covered by water, and...

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The Road to Cromer Pier 2nd January 2021

Janet’s first love arrives out of the blue after thirty years. Those were simpler times for them both. Sunny childhood beach holidays, fish and chips and big copper pennies clunking into one armed bandits. The Wells family has run...

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The Absolute Book 23rd December 2020

Taryn Cornick believes her sister Bea was deliberately run down and killed. She believes it so hard she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye. Which is when...

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The Christmas Menagerie 29th October 2020

Amelia usually loves Christmas, but this year is her first one alone since her husband passed away – though she’s not quite by herself. Somehow, she’s been lumbered with a menagerie of pets over the holidays, no thanks to...

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The Future Homemakers of America 27th October 2020

The Fens, 1953: on a remote American Air Force base, five very different military wives become friends. They later meet & befriend a local girl, Kath, giving them an insight into life in this remote, isolated area; they also...

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