Blogs in March 2015

Breaking Light 25th March 2015

Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and memories: of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Returning to this Dartmoor village where he grew up, Gabriel attempts to come to terms with what he...

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Nordy Bank 13th March 2015

A group of children – similar feel to the Famous Five but greater age range – set up camp on Nordy Bank. Unsettling developments morph the book into darker fantasy but returns to the average experiences that any children...

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The Paying Guests 10th March 2015

It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants,...

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How to be both 10th March 2015

How to be both is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a renaissance artist of the 1460s....

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Aren’t We Sisters? 10th March 2015

Norah Thornby can no longer afford to live in her grand family home in the centre of Silkhampton. Unless, perhaps, she can find a respectable lodger.   But Nurse Lettie Quick is not nearly as respectable as she seems....

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