Blogs in June 2025

You Lied First 10th June 2025

The truth is, everyone lies. All that matters is who lies the best… Sara is about to spend a week in a villa with people she barely knows. She’s been invited to join her daughter, Liv, her boyfriend and...

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Babylonia 1st May 2025

Babylonia – the Assyrian city of the Gods – is home to the strong and ambitious. Into its streets steps an orphan, Semiramis, new wife to a broken warrior. There she meets King Ninus – who soon wants her...

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Fundamentally 9th January 2025

‘By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?’ When academic Nadia is disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, she decides to make a getaway – accepting a UN job in Iraq....

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Before the Queen Falls Asleep 30th December 2024

Born a girl to parents who expected a boy, Jihad grows up treated like the eldest son, wearing boy’s clothing and sharing the financial burden of head of the household with her father. Now middle-aged, each night Jihad tells...

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Sun Trap 15th December 2024

BE CAREFUL Ellie has wanted to be an actor since she was a child so, when a role in a blockbuster film presents itself, she grabs it. WHAT YOU On the plane to location in Abu Dhabi, Ellie overhears...

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