Blogs in March 2021

The Snow Song 22nd March 2021

Women imprisoned by superstition, chained by guilt. Perched on a mountain in a land of ancient forests is a village, rife with secrets. Cut off from the outside world it is run by the elders, men to whom tradition...

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Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers 9th February 2021

The Fusgeyers were the thousands of Jewish Romanian men and women who, unwilling to tolerate anti-Semitism, left their country on foot between 1899 and 1907, and headed for North America. Destitute but resolute, they supported themselves by giving theatrical...

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If You Kept a Record of Sins 14th January 2021

TRANSLATED BY ELIZABETH HARRIS A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she’s building in Romania. Lorenzo, just a young boy when his...

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The Deathless Girls 16th December 2020

Gothic, intoxicating, feminist, darkly provoking and deeply romantic – this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in her much-anticipated YA debut. ‘A Chilling and breathlessly paced thriller… Feminism,...

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Sword 17th May 2020

A shadowy killer stalks the streets of Bucharest, seeking out victims from among the Roma minority. The police are at a loss to track down the murderer, who always dispatches in the same manner – hence the Sword nickname...

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