Blogs in March 2022

I, Mona Lisa 25th March 2022

In Leonardo da Vinci’s studio, bursting with genius imagination, towering commissions and needling patrons, as well as discontented muses, friends and rivals, sits the painting of the Mona Lisa. For five hundred tumultuous years, amid a whirlwind of power,...

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The Clockwork Girl 2nd March 2022

Paris, 1750. In the midst of an icy winter, as birds fall frozen from the sky, chambermaid Madeleine Chastel arrives at the home of the city’s celebrated clockmaker and his clever, unworldly daughter. Madeleine is hiding a dark past,...

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The Last Hours in Paris 1st March 2022

Words are power. They can bring you down, lift you up, make your heart soar, make you fall in love. Or make you hate.’ Paris 1944. Elise Chevalier knows what it is to hate. Her fiance, a young French...

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Milk Teeth 24th February 2022

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing...

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Turf Wars 8th February 2022

The summary execution of three dealers – one murdered in full view of a police surveillance team – is the signal for hell to be unleashed in France’s most notorious suburb. Now there’s a new kingpin in charge, using...

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