Blogs in November 2023

Forever Amber 19th November 2023

A book to read and reread, this reissue brings back to print an unforgettable romance and a timeless masterpiece. Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, sixteen-year-old Amber St. Clare uses her wits, beauty and courage...

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The Gentleman’s Gambit 18th November 2023

Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: an ailing estate, academic writer’s block, a tense time for England’s women’s rights campaign – the last thing she needs is to be stuck playing host to her father’s distractingly attractive young colleague....

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The Hypocrite 18th November 2023

What happens when we stop idolising the generations above us? Stop idolising our own parents? What happens when we become frightened of the generations below us? Frightened of our own children? The Aeolian islands, 2010. Sophia, on the cusp...

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All Us Sinners 17th November 2023

The impressive and moving debut crime novel from huge new talent Katy Massey opens up a world we have rarely seen, at a time of great danger and drama. Leeds, 1977. A chill lies over the city: sex workers...

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Brighter Days Ahead 17th November 2023

Brighter Days Ahead is a moving story set against the backdrop of the Second World War, from Mary Wood, the author of In Their Mother’s Footsteps. War pulled them apart, but can it bring them back together? Molly lives...

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