Blogs in September 2024

Albion 18th September 2024

The Brookes are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home – twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone – to bury Philip, the head of the family – the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as...

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And He Shall Appear 18th September 2024

In the hallowed halls of Cambridge, a dangerous obsession takes hold… When a young man arrives in Cambridge as a first-year student, he finds himself an outsider. There’s the punting and the politics, the wine and the waistcoats, all...

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Dancing with Panthers 17th September 2024

When you’re queer, what’s the point in having dreams? When tall, fair, good looking but lonely Mark Martin living in northern England is offered a lot of money in 1961, aged just fourteen, it sets him off in a...

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The Café on Manor Lane 17th September 2024

The Café on Manor Lane A stranger can change your life in a moment of kindness 1952: Bella is a young French Jew in post-war London, having lost everything in WWII. When she meets Adebayo, a doctor from Nigeria,...

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The Inheritance 13th September 2024

On a private island off the west coast of Scotland, the Agarwals gather for a much-awaited family reunion… Raj, the patriarch and business tycoon, who has six weeks to decide how to split his petrochemicals empire between his three...

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