Blogs in December 2024

The Listeners 13th December 2024

AT THE AVALLON, REAL POWER COMES TO THOSE WHO WATCH AND LISTEN… High in the Appalachian mountains is a place quite unlike any other. The Avallon Hotel and its enigmatic General Manager, June Hudson, are famed for offering unrivalled...

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Atmosphere 11th December 2024

An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be...

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This Cursed House 7th November 2024

Louisiana, 1962. The Duchon family has always been a little different. Light-skinned enough to pass as white, they’ve always felt superior to their black peers, ensconced in their palatial but decrepit New Orleans mansion. Meanwhile in Chicago, Jemma Barker...

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Memorials 7th November 2024

Don’t venture into the Appalachian woods after dark. Never leave the marked trail. And if you hear voices . . . Run. 1983: Three students from a small college embark on a week-long road trip to film a documentary...

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Sweet Vidalia 31st October 2024

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler, a life-affirming novel about marriage, friendship and the powerful dignity of a woman forced to rebuild her life – unexpectedly and alone – in 1960s Texas. She made herself see Robert...

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