Blogs in December 2023

Come and Get It 20th December 2023

‘I couldn’t put it down, and I didn’t want to either’ EMILY HENRY ‘A page-turning pleasure – stylish, sharp and breathtakingly smart‘ DAISY BUCHANAN Everything comes at a price. But not everything can be paid for. Millie wants to...

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Pelican Girls 4th November 2023

A historical feministic epic, for readers of Barbara Kingsolver, The Matrix by Lauren Groff and Maggie Shipstead’s The Great Circle. Paris, 1720. The Hospice of La Salpêtrière is overrun with ‘difficult’ women. Halfway around the world, on the American...

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Something Bigger 17th October 2023

When fourteen-year-old Marcella Coyle leaves Ireland to join her brother, a parish priest in Alabama, she could not have foreseen the turmoil that lay ahead. Plunged into the tense cauldron of the early twentieth century’s Deep South, Marcella struggles...

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Starling House 4th October 2023

Nobody in Eden remembers when Starling House was built. But the town agrees it’s best to let this ill-omened mansion – and its last lonely heir – go to hell. Stories of the house’s bad luck, like good china,...

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Let Us Descend 13th September 2023

On a slave plantation in the Carolinas, Annis has survived in the light of her mother’s resilience, comforted by stories of her African warrior grandmother. Everything she knows, she learned from her mother – how to fight, how to...

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