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Secrets of the Bees by Jane Johnson

5 June 2025 By Editor

Time has forgotten this remote corner of West Cornwall, and left its many secrets undisturbed. Until now… Ezra Curnow has lived in the little cottage on the Trengrose estate all his life. He was born there, as was hisfather, and his grandfather before that. It is his own little Cornish paradise. Then the mistress of […]

The Black Crescent by Jane Johnson

6 June 2024 By Editor

1950s Morocco is full of murder, magic and divided loyalties… Hamou Badi is born in a mountain village with the magical signs of the zouhry on his hands. The zouhry is a figure of legend, capable of finding all manner of treasure. But instead of finding treasure, young Hamou finds a body. Haunted by this […]

Reinterpreting the Fall of Granada

6 July 2017 By Jane Johnson

“At length they saw the silver cross, the great standard of this crusade, elevated on the Torre de

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