Blogs in January 2015

Cannery Row 25th January 2015

John Steinbeck’s paean to the Monterey County of his youth, Cannery Row contains an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw in Penguin Modern Classics. In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists...

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Moloka’i 26th December 2014

Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, dreams of seeing far-off lands, but at the age of seven Rachel’s dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from the family, she’s...

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The Look of Love 26th November 2014

Jane is single, born on Christmas day, and she has inherited a flower shop in Pike Place, Seattle. As she is gearing up for the holidays she gets a card with a message saying that she has a special...

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Naked Fear 25th November 2014

One moment Annie Roszkowski’s closing the bar at Sitka Lillie’s and sharing a cup of coffee with the last customer; the next moment she’s running naked across a barren Alaskan island pursued by three wealthy hunters and a pack...

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The Burning Room 7th November 2014

In the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which...

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