Blogs in April 2018

Dear Mrs Bird 11th April 2018

London, 1941. Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty are trying to stay cheerful despite the Luftwaffe making life thoroughly annoying for everyone. Emmy dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent and when she spots a job advertisement in...

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Silk for the Feed Dogs 7th April 2018

Silk for the Feed Dogs illuminates a world the author knows intimately in a way it hadn’t been described before: with thoughtfulness, profundity and humor. Kat Connelly, innovative designer and introspective daughter of an Irish farmer, is disappointed with...

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Disbanded Kingdom 7th April 2018

Twenty-two-year-old Oscar is a lost cause. He roams central London looking for love and distraction. But this isn’t quite Bright Lights, Big City: Oscar is gay but feels disconnected from London’s gay scene. He is naive and rootless, an...

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Tin Man 6th April 2018

It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who...

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Ghost 3rd April 2018

Langlands House is haunted, but not by the ghost you think. Augusta McAndrew lives on a remote Scottish estate with her grandmother, Rose. For her own safety, she hides from outsiders, as she has done her entire life. Visitors...

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