Blogs in April 2020

Our Sister Killjoy 14th April 2020

Out of Africa with her degree and her all seeing eyes comes Sissie. She comes to Europe, to a land of towering mountains and low grey skies and tries to makes sense of it all. What is she doing...

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Utopia Avenue 13th April 2020

The imaginative and award-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell returns to spin a web of music and money as a psychedelic British band in the ‘60s finds fame and fallout among such legends as...

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A Kind of Vanishing 11th April 2020

Summer of 1968: on the same day that Robert Kennedy is shot, two nine-year old girls are playing hide and seek in the ruins of a deserted Sussex village. Alice has discovered a secret about Eleanor’s mother, and is...

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Shuggie Bain 10th April 2020

It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid...

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The Bloody City 10th April 2020

1217: Lincoln is not a safe place to be. A French army has captured the city, and the terrified citizens huddle in the rubble of their homes as the castle, the last remaining loyal stronghold in the region, is...

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