Blogs in January 2025

The Lollipop Man 26th January 2025

When a young girl is snatched from a West Yorkshire town there are eerie similarities with a cold case from many years earlier. It can’t be the same killer, can it? Yorkshire, 1994. Eighteen-year-old Adrian Brown spends his days...

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Have You Eaten Rice Today? 26th January 2025

The Emergency rubles through the jungles, the kampongs, and towns as the communist uprising in 1950s Malaya adds poignancy to the salutation, ‘have you eaten rice today?’ when hunger drives some terrorists to surrender. Simon Frampton returns to Malaya...

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When We Were Killers 25th January 2025

Five friends. One deadly obsession. The salt-scented quadrangles of St Andrews University greet misfit first-year student Finn Nethercott with indifference. This is a place where only privilege counts, and those from the right backgrounds can get away with murder....

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The Book Game 24th January 2025

A group of old friends reunite for an idyllic week-long retreat. By Friday, their lives will never be the same again… In August, eight friends gather at a house in the Cambridgeshire countryside for a week-long writers’ retreat. There...

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The Source 23rd January 2025

One last chance to reveal the truth… 1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie...

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