Blogs in October 2017

Green Dawn at St Enda’s 13th October 2017

When 12 year-old William Devoy s Irish father sends him from New York to a new Dublin boarding school, St Enda s, William imagines having an adventure. It is 1911; the next five years will bring William, and Ireland,...

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Herself Alone in Orange Rain 13th October 2017

Kaylynne Ryan is a promising art student, used to fighting for her place in a world of men, but when a forgotten friend turns up she realises there is more than her own freedom at stake. Learning the truth...

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Mr Darcy’s Guide to Pemberley 12th October 2017

One “had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.” From its very first appearance 200 years ago on the pages of Jane Austen’s...

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A Christmas with the Dodger 8th October 2017

Come share a Victorian Christmas with the Artful Dodger! Christmas 1899 is approaching and Reg Dawkins, adopted son of the infamous Artful Dodger, is facing a lifetime dilemma. The Turn of the Century is a time of new beginnings...

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A Good Death 8th October 2017

‘A good death is better than a bad conscience,’ said Sophie. 1983 – Georgie, Theo, Sophie and Helena, four disparate young Cambridge undergraduates, set out to scale Ausangate, one of the highest and most sacred peaks in the Andes....

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