Blogs in September 2024

The Mighty Red 24th September 2024

In Argus, North Dakota, a fraught wedding is taking place. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe. Gary thinks Kismet is the answer to all of his problems; Kismet...

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Three Women 18th February 2020

All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a...

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Love Medicine 12th February 2020

Beautiful reissue of Louise Erdrich’s most famous novel, from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation and winner of the National Book Award 2012. Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, ‘Love Medicine’ tells the...

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Yellow Bird 8th January 2020

When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her...

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Paradise Valley 6th September 2017

He’s the Lizard King – a serial killer who haunts North America’s highways and truck stops, preying on runaways and prostitutes. After years on the road, he’s tired. The net is closing around him. Its time to end it....

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