Blogs in October 2019

Walking Backwards (Up an Apostle’s Nose) 10th October 2019

This beautiful literary memoir framed in six days walking on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in 2015 is a love letter to Spain and to women’s lives. It weaves together rich seams of hard reality with profound lyricism,...

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The Box of Demons 10th October 2019

Ben Robson can’t remember a time before he had the Box, with its three mischief-making demon occupants: smelly, cantankerous Orff, manically destructive Kartofel and fat, slobbering greedy-guts Djinn. When Ben was a kid it was fun, and he enjoyed...

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Single All the Way 10th October 2019

I can see my mother is calling me. I answer the phone, knowing I’ll have to tell her about Oliver and me breaking up. But before I can, she announces, ‘I don’t exactly know how to tell you this…...

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Summer at the Cornish Café 7th October 2019

Demi doesn’t expect her summer in Cornwall to hold anything out of the ordinary. As a waitress, working all hours to make ends meet, washing dishes and serving ice creams seems to be as exciting as the holiday season...

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If You Could Go Anywhere 7th October 2019

Angie has always wanted to travel. But at twenty-seven, she has barely stepped outside the small mining town where she was born. Instead, she discovers the world through stories told to her by passing travellers, dreaming that one day...

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