Blogs in September 2016

Lydia Bennet’s Story 25th September 2016

In “Lydia Bennet’s Story”, we are taken back to Jane Austen’s most beloved novel, “Pride and Prejudice”, to a Regency world seen through Lydia’s eyes where pleasure and marriage are the only pursuits. But the road to matrimony is...

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The Bees 24th September 2016

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction 2015 Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive. Born into the lowest class...

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Conversations with Spirits 23rd September 2016

December, 1917. The Great War is rampaging through Europe – yet Trelawney Hart has scarcely noticed. The arch-sceptic and former child prodigy has lost his way and now ekes out a lonely existence, taking his only comfort from the...

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Murder makes an Entree 23rd September 2016

Only a dinner of first-class excellence can tempt the Prince of Wales to endure the ordeal of being the president of the Society of Literary Lionisers. And he ensures this by insisting that the year’s highlight, the banquet at...

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Under a Dark Star 19th September 2016

In 1823, on an island off the south coast of England, there are activities worse than smuggling and all the conflict points to one cruel and ruthless man. The women on the island call him the Dark Star. Reformed...

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