Blogs in February 2020

Blood Meridian 9th February 2020

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that...

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Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People 9th February 2020

Born twenty-nine miles north of the arctic circle, William L. Iggiagruk Hensley was raised to live the semi-nomadic life that his Iñupiaq ancestors had lived for thousands of years. In this stirring memoir, he offers us a rare first-hand...

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Castle of Dreams 19th January 2020

A time-split novel. In the 1930’s two sisters’, Vivien and Rose Blake grow up in a castle in the far north Queensland rainforest. During the Pacific War they both fall in love with the same American serviceman. In the...

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The Dreamers 16th January 2020

Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months… Karen Thompson Walker’s second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers...

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The Unpassing 14th January 2020

In Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman,...

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