Blogs in January 2021

This Nowhere Place 2nd January 2021

‘That’s the thing about our town: people only come here if they’re going somewhere else.’ One grey afternoon, high on the cliffs of Dover, two girls agree to help a stranger. Within months, two of the three girls are...

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Boy Parts 2nd January 2021

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery,...

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Pen Pals 2nd January 2021

Brenda Arkwright has been the Managing Director of Murgatroyd Pens for much of her working life. She is popular, personable and competent. But Brenda has secrets. When Jean Murgatroyd passes away in a nursing home in the northern industrial...

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The Road to Cromer Pier 2nd January 2021

Janet’s first love arrives out of the blue after thirty years. Those were simpler times for them both. Sunny childhood beach holidays, fish and chips and big copper pennies clunking into one armed bandits. The Wells family has run...

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Dead in Devon 2nd January 2021

Juno Browne is a self-appointed Domestic Goddess. From cleaning to dog-walking to caring for the elderly, she flits around the picturesque village of Ashburton in her trusty van ready to turn her hand to anything. Despite warnings to the...

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