Blogs in April 2018

Disbanded Kingdom 7th April 2018

Twenty-two-year-old Oscar is a lost cause. He roams central London looking for love and distraction. But this isn’t quite Bright Lights, Big City: Oscar is gay but feels disconnected from London’s gay scene. He is naive and rootless, an...

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Tin Man 6th April 2018

It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who...

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The Italian Teacher 28th March 2018

Rome, 1955 The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome’s historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre...

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Pendulum 28th March 2018

‘James Patterson calls it “one of the best thrillers of the year”, and it is plain to see why…told at a great pace, has a strong central character and a snaking plot’ – Daily Mail You wake. Confused. Disorientated....

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Disappearance at Oare 26th March 2018

The Whitstable Pearl restaurant has been busy all summer while Pearl’s detective agency has brought few interesting cases – until a prospective client calls… Christina Scott confides that seven years ago she had the perfect life with a seaside...

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