Blogs in July 2023

Rani & Sukh 31st July 2023

A powerful and gripping novel that sweeps the reader from modern-day Britain to the Punjab in the 1960s and back again in a ceaseless cycle of tragedy and conflict. 1950s Punjab – a secret affair goes terribly wrong and...

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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ 16th November 2020

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ is the first book in Sue Townsend’s brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It’s my mother’s fault for singing ‘My Way’ at two o’clock...

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An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Leicester 15th August 2019

How can you wring everything out of a city in a creative writing sense? Is it possible to write about a place and exhaust every avenue so that there is nothing left to write? Can you fill a book...

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Pigeon Fancying in Leicestershire 8th June 2019

Pigeon Fancying in Leicestershire is a light-hearted and witty book, in which an off-beat, crime-based plot is interwoven with a love story. Lanfranco DeLuca has a passion for pigeon racing, but his prize-breeding bird, recently bought at great expense,...

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His Very Own Girl 30th July 2016

After the War took the lives of Lulu Davies’s parents and her fiancé, she promised herself she would guard her heart carefully and concentrate on her great love—flying the biggest and best airplanes in the sky. Lulu is a...

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