Blogs in April 2025

Swindon Mountain 6th April 2025

A mountain unexpectedly appears in the Marlborough Downs, overshadowing the city of Swindon. It arrives quietly, straddling the boundary between Oxfordshire and West Berkshire. It looks as if it has always been there. But it hasn’t. No one knows...

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One Moor Time 6th April 2025

‘I have known this view my whole life. It’s always been there – another world in the near distance …’ When Ben Pering sets out to walk from South Devon to the North Devon coast, crossing from the tors...

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Smoke and Silk 6th April 2025

Pearl Fitzgerald arrives in Limehouse – London’s very ­first Chinatown – to settle her late father’s affairs and claim her inheritance. But when she unwittingly ­finds herself at the scene of a murder, her plans are thrown off course....

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Mere 6th April 2025

Norfolk, 990 AD. Deep in the Fens, isolated by a vast and treacherous mere, an order of holy sisters make their home. Under the steely guidance of Abbess Sigeburg they follow God’s path, looking to their infirmarian, Hilda, to...

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We Pretty Pieces of Flesh 5th April 2025

Ask anyone non-Northern, they’ll only know Donny as punch line of a joke or place they changed trains once ont way to London. But Doncaster’s also the home of Rach, Shaz and Kel, bezzies since childhood and Donny lasses...

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