Blogs in January 2021

Boy Parts 2nd January 2021

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery,...

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Pen Pals 2nd January 2021

Brenda Arkwright has been the Managing Director of Murgatroyd Pens for much of her working life. She is popular, personable and competent. But Brenda has secrets. When Jean Murgatroyd passes away in a nursing home in the northern industrial...

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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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Dead in Devon 2nd January 2021

Juno Browne is a self-appointed Domestic Goddess. From cleaning to dog-walking to caring for the elderly, she flits around the picturesque village of Ashburton in her trusty van ready to turn her hand to anything. Despite warnings to the...

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Hot Stew 31st December 2020

‘Hot Stew reads like a great night out in a city that never sleeps’ Jan Carson ‘Fiona Mozley not only fulfills her promise but surpasses it. Her new stew is such a steaming, fuming mix of life, lust and...

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