Blogs in September 2020

Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man 18th September 2020

1941: a teenage William Catesby leaves Cambridge to join the army and support the war effort. Parachuted into Occupied France as an SOE officer, he witnesses tragedies and remarkable feats of bravery during the French Resistance. 2014: now in...

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One Mallorcan Summer 16th July 2020

One Mallorcan Summer. Two heart-rending secrets. Three lives changed forever. When Clara and Ralph meet again by chance, forty years have passed since they were teenage sweethearts and a tragedy tore them apart. Both reeling from a recent event...

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Anyone for Edmund? 29th June 2020

Under tennis courts in the ruins of a great abbey, archaeologists find the remains of St Edmund, once venerated as England’s patron saint, but lost for half a millennium. Culture Secretary Marina Spencer, adored by those who have never...

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Hello, Again 26th June 2020

Philippa Taylor (Pepper to her friends) has big dreams. When she closes her eyes, she can picture exactly who she ought to be. The problem is, it’s about as far away from her real life in a small coastal...

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The Death of Lucy Kyte 17th May 2020

When bestselling crime author Josephine Tey inherits a remote Suffolk cottage from her godmother, it came full of secrets. Sorting through the artefacts of her godmother’s life, Josephine is intrigued by an infamous murder committed near the cottage a...

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