Blogs in June 2015

Orhan’s Inheritance 27th June 2015

When Orhan’s brilliant and eccentric grandfather Kemal—a man who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs—is found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But Kemal’s will raises more questions than it answers....

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Lost Canyon 14th June 2015

Four people on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada find more adventure than they ever imagined. When they start up a pristine mountain trail that hasn’t been travelled in years, all they have to guide them is a...

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Honolulu 13th June 2015

“In Korea in those days, newborn girls were not deemed important enough to be graced with formal names, but were instead given nicknames, which often reflected the parents’ feelings on the birth of a daughter: I knew a girl...

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I Saw A Man 27th May 2015

Hampstead. New York. Nevada. The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner – thinking the Nelsons’ house was empty – stepped through their back door. After the...

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Motiba’s Tattoos 21st May 2015

In a lyrical memoir spiced with mouth-watering Indian recipes and old family photographs, Mira Kamdar takes us back to the ancient world into which her grandmother was born: a tiny village in Kathiawar, India. Kamdar traces the Indian diaspora,...

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