Blogs in July 2020

After Leaving the Village 24th July 2020

Two women. Two villages. Different destinies. Odeta’s life has shrunk to a daily round of drudgery, running her father’s grocery store in a remote Albanian village. One day an enigmatic stranger from Tirana walks into the shop and promises...

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Façade 24th July 2020

Façade by Helen Matthews A drowned child, estranged sisters, a once-perfect house Silence echoes louder than truth When seventeen-year-old Rachel’s baby brother drowns and her older sister, Imogen, escapes to live abroad with Simon, her musician boyfriend, Rachel must...

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The Exiles 21st July 2020

Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is...

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The Monte Carlo Connection 21st July 2020

Diamond detective, Jemima Fox is tasked with hunting down the priceless Vogel Vanderpless diamonds that were stolen in The Diamond Connection by her nemesis Petrina Lindberg. She finds herself caught between searching for half-a-century-year-old stolen jewels and catching a...

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Surf, Sweat & Tears: the Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst 18th July 2020

What really happened to Ted, Viscount Deerhurst, surfing professional, the “Lord on a Board”? Lee Child said: “I don’t usually read books about surfers, but this is like Truman Capote with shorts.” When I met Ted, he was a...

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