Blogs in August 2019

Tom Jones 2nd August 2019

Fielding’s comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery’. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible...

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A Map of the Sky 1st August 2019

Kit doesn’t understand why his family has been uprooted to a remote coastal village in the North. Why did they leave so suddenly, and why has his Dad not joined them? At Askfeld Farm Guesthouse he meets an eclectic...

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Riverflow 31st July 2019

“No longer the benign friend of summer, the Severn was a restless dragon slithering its way past” After a beloved family member is drowned in a devastating flood, all Bede and Elin Sherwell want is peace to pursue their...

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The Forgotten Village 26th July 2019

1943: The world is at war, and the villagers of Tyneham are being asked to make one more sacrifice: to give their homes over to the British army. But on the eve of their departure, a terrible act will...

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The Last Stage 25th July 2019

At the peak of her career as lead singer of a legendary 1980s indie band, Meredith Vincent was driven off the international stage by a horrific incident. Now living a quiet existence in a cottage on the grounds of...

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