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The girl behind the desk at the Foxhollow Humane Society has a tired, practised smile, the kind worn by someone who has watched a great many visitors walk past the back kennels. Claire Ashford does not ask for a puppy. She asks which animal has been there longest, and the girl takes her to a […]

A gritty, hopeful journey across Civil War America Blueland captures the courage, survival, and loyalty of those who fought and endured through one of America’s toughest and most defining periods.  Told largely through dialogue and featuring an extensive cast, this story explores the devastating cost of war; the fight against injustice, including antisemitism and racism; […]

Somewhere over the Eversea, on a stormship with no maid aboard, a young empress realises she cannot get out of her own dress. The row of buttons down her spine defeats her, and the only person on the ship she can ask is the husband who has barely spoken to her in days. He undoes […]

The welcome mat is the first thing Molly Graham recognises. She bought it at a craft fair before college, with cat silhouettes running along its border, and dragged it from dorm to dorm, and now it lies outside an apartment she has no memory of renting. Inside, the living room is jammed with antiques: two […]

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Early in In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck, a woman in a migrant camp goes into labour and there is no doctor. Mac, who has arrived that afternoon and knows nothing about childbirth, announces that he has medical training and delivers the baby by nerve and hot water. It goes well. Afterwards he explains to […]