Blogs in December 2023

The Secret Chord 9th December 2023

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 1000 BC. The Second Iron Age. The time of King David. Anointed as the chosen one when just a young shepherd boy, David will rise to be king, grasping the...

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The Last Bird of Paradise 19th November 2023

The Inspector George Zammit Series Book 5 An act of sacrifice A young boy starts his journey in the refugee camps of Syria, only to find himself excited on the terraces of a football stadium in London. How did...

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The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby 9th November 2023

Some women can’t be erased from history . . . A story of love and madness, of obsession and revenge. Paris, 1938: Runaway heiress Juliette Willoughby perishes, with her married lover, in an accidental studio fire alongside her Surrealist...

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School of Instructions 19th October 2023

In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers...

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The Collector 30th July 2023

On the morning after the Venice Preservation Society’s annual black-tie gala, art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon enters his favorite coffee bar on the island of Murano to find General Cesare Ferrari, the commander of the Art Squad,...

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