Blogs in August 2019

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Leicester 15th August 2019

How can you wring everything out of a city in a creative writing sense? Is it possible to write about a place and exhaust every avenue so that there is nothing left to write? Can you fill a book...

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The Stranger’s Guide To Talliston 15th August 2019

Abandoned and alone, thirteen-year-old Joe’s world is shattered when he enters a deserted council house in Great Dunmow and becomes trapped within a labyrinth protecting the last magical places on earth. There, Joe discovers The Stranger’s Guide, a cryptic...

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My Sister’s Bones 13th August 2019

This novel is listed as also being in Syria… it is an insightful reflection of the time spent there war reporting, seen from England…. Kate has spent fifteen years bringing global injustice home: as a decorated war reporter, she’s...

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Darkness, Darkness 13th August 2019

Thirty years ago, the British Miners’ Strike threatened to tear england apart, turning neighbor against neighbor, husband against wife, father against son―enmities which still smolder. Charlie Resnick, recently promoted to Detective Inspector and ambivalent, at best, about some of...

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Dear Amy 13th August 2019

Margot Lewis is the agony aunt for The Cambridge Examiner. Her advice column, Dear Amy, gets all kinds of letters – but none like the one she’s just received: ‘Dear Amy, I don’t know where I am. I’ve been...

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