Blogs in November 2022

The Undercurrents 18th November 2022

The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the centre of great historical changes,...

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The Secret Society of Salzburg 15th November 2022

At first glance, Austrian opera singer Elsa Mayer-Braun has little in common with the young English typist she encounters on tour. Yet she and Hattie Featherstone forge an instant connection–and strike a dangerous alliance. Using their friendship as a...

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In the Blood 2nd November 2022

London 1988: Agata grew up in post-war Prague and believes that her mother was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. Then she discovers that not everyone died. Set against the background of the collapse of...

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The Resort 21st October 2022

Mila and her husband Ethan are on their way to her sister’s wedding at a luxurious ski resort. As they drive through the mountains, surrounded by snow covered forests, Mila feels like everything is finally going to plan. When...

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Ghost Town 17th October 2022

Keith Chen, the desperately yearned for second son of a traditional Taiwanese family with five daughters, refuses to play the role his parochial parents would cast him in. Instead, he chooses to make a life for himself in cosmopolitan...

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