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Read of the month

Tom Benjamin — The Bologna Vendetta

1st May 2025

Instead of escaping reality to this fantastic city, this city of phantoms, I was rushing towards it – hard fate awaited me in this soupy shade of a place… In the oppressive heat of summer in Bologna, English detective Daniel Leicester is …

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Featured author

Alexandra Strnad

Alexandra read English at the University of Cambridge, and completed her postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford, as well as studying at Charles University. A Czech-British-Australian National, she lived in Prague for several years, and now spends her time between Africa, Asia, the Middle…