Blogs in June 2020

The Other Half of Augusta Hope 4th June 2020

At six, she’s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she’s correcting her teachers. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi. And now that she’s an adult, Augusta has no...

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Take It Back 3rd June 2020

When Jodie Wolfe, a sixteen-year-old girl with severe facial deformities accuses four boys in her class of an unthinkable crime, the community is torn apart. The defendants are four handsome teenagers from hard-working immigrant families, all with proven alibis....

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The Binding 3rd June 2020

Emmett Farmer is a binder’s apprentice. His job is to hand-craft beautiful books and, within each, to capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If you have something you want to forget, or a secret to hide, he can...

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Beneath the Streets 2nd June 2020

It is February 1976, and the naked corpse of a shockingly underage rent boy is fished out of a pond on Hampstead Heath. Since the police don’t seem to care, twenty-year-old Tommy Wildeblood – himself a former ‘Dilly boy’...

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Kit’s Hill 2nd June 2020

Family saga set in the Pennine foothills of North Lancashire. A scandalous marriage between an educated young lady and a farmer, in a society where an 18th century farming community finds itself moving into the early days of the...

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