Blogs in January 2018

Dark Echoes of the Past 18th January 2018

Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho River from his Santiago apartment. The city he loves may be changing, but Heredia can’t stop chasing the ghosts...

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Black Sugar 13th January 2018

Miguel Bonnefoy’s colourful tale of a family’s changing fortunes is also the fascinating story of Venezuela’s development over the course of the 20th century. On the edge of the Latin American rainforest, the Oteros family farm sugar cane in...

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In Patagonia 27th October 2017

Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin’s travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay...

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Octavio’s Journey 24th October 2017

Compact but kaleidoscopic fable of Venezuela from a stunning new voice in the magical realism tradition. “His body might have been hewn from a tree trunk; his heart would last for a hundred years. And, like a tree, he...

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Merlin at War 24th October 2017

War rages across Europe. France is under the Nazi thumb. Britain has its back to the wall. In London, Scotland Yard detective Merlin investigates a series of disturbing events – a young girl killed in a botched abortion, a...

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