Blogs in December 2020

Open Water 18th December 2020

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists – he a photographer, she a dancer – trying...

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The Children’s Home 17th December 2020

A beguiling and disarming novel about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor. Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins, lives on a sprawling estate, cut off...

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Little Monsters 17th December 2020

When I was thirteen, my father killed my mother . . . How do you recover from something like that? Carol never quite does. Sent to live with her aunt, who barely tolerates her presence, Carol is grief-stricken and...

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Boy Queen 17th December 2020

Fall wig first into a world of big hair, high heels and even higher stakes in George Lester’s debut novel Boy Queen. Life’s a drag until you try . . . Robin Cooper’s life is falling apart. While his...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood 17th December 2020

The classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood, champion of the poor and oppressed, stands against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. Taking refuge in the vast Sherwood Forest with...

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