Fairlight Books
A Good Year
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1925, rural Cyprus. This book tells of Loukas and his wife Despo, married only a year and expecting their first child—please God a ...Read Review
Voting Day
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Switzerland, 1959: a referendum is taking place on whether to grant women the vote, but one in which only men can take part. Farmer’...Read Review
Blue Postcards
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This novella has an unusual format in that the paragraphs, even sometimes just single sentences, are all numbered, with white space between each ...Read Review
The Second Person from Porlock
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1824. In London, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, now in his fifties and totally addicted to opium, sits by his seriously ill son, Derwent, and reflects ...Read Review
The Woodcock
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Gravely, east coast of England, 1920s. Harriet and Jon have been happily married for two years. He is a naturalist who makes a ...Read Review
Valhalla
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Born in 1867, cousin of Queen Victoria, and known within royal circles as “May,” Princess Mary of Teck was one of the crop of ...Read Review
A Matter of Interpretation
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Translation is always a “matter of interpretation”, and it can (still) be a matter of life or death for the translator. Elizabeth Mac ...Read Review
The Prince of Mirrors
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The Prince in question is Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of Edward, the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra of Denmark. He was ...Read Review