Blogs in April 2026

Yorùbá Boy Running 29th April 2026

Yorùbá Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s miraculous journey from slave to liberator, boy to man, running to resisting ‘Run, Àjàyí, run!’ The day the Malian slave traders invaded the Nigerian town of Òsogùn, thirteen-year-old Àjàyí’s life was split...

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Dwell 28th April 2026

…they are within a painting, both openly staring, with the only movement the glittering of dust motes. Light halos the marble-white figure on the floor, burnishing his hair, sharpening his features… January 1919. A new gardener at a snowbound...

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Paper Sisters 22nd April 2026

Lincolnshire, 1914. As the First World War approaches, three women are living, trapped between the unforgiving marsh, the wide, relentless river, and the isolation of the fen. Their lives are held fast by profound grief, haunted by the spectres...

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Just Kill 21st April 2026

London during a blistering heatwave. A man wakes in the middle of the night, hearing noises from downstairs. He assumes it’s a burglar – nothing prepares him for what he finds. Across the city, DI Leah Hutch and DS...

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The First Act of Summer 17th April 2026

As children, Hester and Elias were inseparable. Every year, their families would spend the summer together at their beach huts on a wild and windswept sandbank, where the two of them never left each other’s side. But childhood friendships...

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