A festive collection to make readers stop and think about the nuanced difference between expectation - false and hopeful - and reality
Rumours of a body that got found nearby the previous year
romantic nature hasn't entirely clicked with the Arbles household
So she takes her dead brother's identity and begins her journey
‘The author's wit and wisdom deserve as wide an audience as possible
Venus, Vanishing - Fresh Ink Edition Colin Wilson A festive collection to makeBlisteringly passionate, Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell is a page turning debut novel of desire, art, and the stories lost to the darkness of history. 'Gripping, gorgeously written . . . I couldn't put it down' Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre 'This vivid novel of 1930s Berlin asks what it means to make art in an emergency' Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood Berlin, 1928. Hannah is new to the pleasures and freedoms of the city.