Blogs in June 2016

To the Bright Edge of the World 28th June 2016

Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska’s hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska and its...

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Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago 27th June 2016

Sharp and intimate, Douglas Cowie’s reimagining of the turbulent love affair between Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren asks what it means to love and be loved by the right person at the wrong time. Chicago, 1947: on a...

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Nasty Cutter 27th June 2016

Danger gets a little too close to home for ex-cop Raymond Donne …When his father’s former law partner, Harry Stover, is murdered while being celebrated as Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s “Man of the Year,” ex-cop turned schoolteacher Raymond Donne fights his...

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The Weekenders 25th June 2016

Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends and it’s something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her...

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Everyone is Watching 25th June 2016

‘Beautiful, kaleidoscopic . . . everyone should be watching Megan Bradbury from now on’ Eimear McBride, Baileys Prize-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing New York: A city that inspires. A city that draws people in. A city...

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