Blogs in August 2015

Without Reservations 3rd August 2015

American journalist Alice Steinbach took a year off to live in four cities – Paris, Venice, London and Oxford – when she realized she had entered a new phase of life. Her sons had graduated from college; she had...

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Fishnet 3rd August 2015

Winner of Not The Booker Prize 2015 Twenty year old Rona Leonard walks out of her sister Fiona’s flat and disappears. Six years on, worn down by a tedious job, child care and the aching absence in her life,...

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Flight 1st August 2015

Set around London/South East England and mainly in Cornwall. When Wren Irving’s numbers come up in the first ever national lottery draw, she doesn’t tell her husband, Rob. Instead she quietly packs her bags, kisses her six-month-old daughter Phoebe...

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My Sea Is Wide 28th July 2015

ROWLAND EVANS has led a truly remarkable life, but his seventieth year saw his driven, purposeful walk brought to an abrupt halt amidst the concerns and attitudes of the world to those “of a certain age”. In this lyrical...

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The Bad Fire 28th July 2015

Commit a sin and you’ll go to the Bad Fire… That’s what Eddie Mallon was told when he was growing up in Glasgow. Now he’s about to discover that even after all these years, the fire never goes out....

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