Blogs in February 2023

The Inn at Tansy Falls 4th February 2023

At loose ends after a tough few years, a London bookkeeper in her mid-30s embarks on a sad trip to scatter the ashes of her late BFF in the small Vermont town of Tansy Falls. What starts as a...

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The Madness of July 2nd February 2023

‘Secrets and regrets, ambition and venality. I have seldom come across a novel so redolent of le Carré.’ Charles Cumming London, mid-1970s. A sweltering July in Whitehall, and for Will Flemyng, foreign office minister, the temperature rises with each...

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The Guest 2nd February 2023

Summer is coming to a close on Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome… One misstep at a dinner party and the older man she’s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and...

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Lincoln in the Bardo 2nd February 2023

The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the...

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On the Fringes 31st January 2023

A clairvoyant, a mining swindle and a fresh start. Although Maude has the unusual gift of clairvoyance, she suffers from a bad marriage. Together with her con artist husband Charley, they travel west by train in 1895, to start...

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