Blogs in September 2016

Liberty’s Fire 15th September 2016

Paris, 1871. Four young people will rewrite their destinies. Paris is in revolt. After months of siege at the hands of the Prussians, a wind of change is blowing through the city, bringing with it murmurs of a new...

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Mr Chicken Goes to Paris 31st August 2016

Mr Chicken has left the safe world of Harriet’s story and sets off on a global adventure. He’s visiting Paris and, like a good tourist, he’s doing all the famous sites, accompanied by his friend, Yvette. But it’s not...

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Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon 15th August 2016

In 1787, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Venetian statesman, is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when...

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The Rabbi’s Cat 6th August 2016

In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his master’s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the...

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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World 6th August 2016

In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on...

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