Blogs in March 2023

The Conspirators 3rd March 2023

A private plane and helicopter take him to a showcase villa in Carinthia and all the luxury he could ever want. Here he meets the owner of the house Bondarenko. Unwillingly Jacob has become part of an organised crime...

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Tito’s Lost Children, War One: Slovenia 2nd April 2022

An action-packed alternate history of the breakup of Yugoslavia. Jovana, the fictional secret daughter of Marshall Josip Broz Tito, is caught up in the real events leading to Slovenia’s 10-day war for independence in 1991. She and her friends...

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Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me 2nd June 2021

Winner of The Center for Fiction’s Christopher Doheny Award American-born Catherine knows little of her Croatian mother’s early life. When Marijana dies of ovarian cancer, twenty-two-year-old Catherine finds herself cut off from the past she never really knew. As...

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Dog on the Rhine: From Rat Race to Road Trip 7th May 2021

“An Inspirational Travelogue”* Jackie and Mark Lambert gave up work, accidentally bought a caravan and decided to tour in her full time with their four Cavapoos, Kai, Rosie, Ruby and Lani. In their second year, with some actual caravanning...

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Yugoslavia, My Fatherland 20th May 2020

The story that unfolds in Vojnović’s hugely popular Slovenian novel is so gripping, that it is quite easy to forget your real surroundings. A Google search takes Vladan Borojević back to the catastrophic events of 1991, when he first...

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