Blogs in January 2016

Drumbeats 17th January 2016

Drumbeats is the first novel in a trilogy. It is 1965 and the air is light with the idea of freedom, love and the Beatles, but eighteen year old Jess is feeling stifled by her puritanical religious family background...

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The Fishermen 15th September 2015

Man Book Shortlisted 2015 Told from the point of view of nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Nigeria. When their father has to travel to a...

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Dear Beneficiary 28th July 2015

Dear Beneficiary follows the adventures of Cynthia Hartworth, a feisty sixty- year- old woman who, despite strong convictions that she has everything in her life under her control, finds out the modern world isn’t always as it seems. Widowed...

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Igboland 21st July 2015

A NEW LIFE THOUSANDS OF MILES FROM HOME Lydia and Clem Davie arrive in an Igbo village in Nigeria in July 1967 just as civil war breaks out, but Lydia has trouble adjusting to life in West Africa: a...

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Squirting Milk at Chameleons 8th March 2015

Khady pulled out a breast and with a deadly aim fired milk at the chameleon. If I don t offer it milk, our son will grow up to look like a lizard, she explained. Clearly I had a lot...

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