Blogs in January 2022

A Turning Wind 3rd January 2022

Would you trust Ludo da Portovenere? From the trading colony of Goa to the royal courts of England and Spain, Ludo da Portovenere fulfils dangerous secret commissions for three kingdoms on his own terms, and for his own reasons....

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City of Wonders 26th December 2021

Eduardo Mendoza’s classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and unscrupulous Onofre Bouvila “Though historical in subject matter, this story of Catalonian enterprise and Barcelonan ambition is thoroughly...

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Dancing Through Life, a Memoir, Volume 1 19th December 2021

Straddling the century, this colourful memoir tells of a childhood with an English rose and an English-German spy as parents, the confusions of a Dickensian schooling, coming of age in London’s legendary sixties, before becoming a cave-dwelling hippy on...

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Songs for the Flames 3rd December 2021

A morally complex, searing set of stories by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling and The Shape of the Ruins (shortlisted for the Booker International Prize 2019). A renowned photographer probes a traumatic incident in the...

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The City of Mist 1st December 2021

A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart. A labyrinth maker flees Constantinople to a plague ridden Barcelona, with plans...

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