Despatched on holiday while their parents try and sort out their marital crisis, seventeen year old Ellen and her young brother Simon find themselves plunged into a mystery involving a longstanding conflict between the Swedish townsfolk and the local Sami population. The further they probe into the events, however, the larger a secret in their own family looms. That connection, elusive at first, seems destined to drag them towards a dangerous confrontation with the perpetrator…

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The world’s a less brighter place this week.

A couple of weeks ago, you may have seen the news that Amanda Knox had taken a controversial one-woman show to the Edinburgh Fringe. Controversial, in that the show, Cartwheel, addressed her experiences from twenty years ago when she was charged, convicted and eventually acquitted of the murder of her roommate, the British student Meredith Kercher. Kercher's family felt particularly aggrieved, and it's hard to blame them.

Dolly Parton, legendary US country singer, dies aged 80.

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There are two things that tend to jump out when reading memoir; the differences and the similarities.And when we explore the lives of people from different cultural and geographical backgrounds, the unfamiliar is also educational, it allows us to understand and empathise with communities that we otherwise only encounter as news stories. The similarities, meanwhile, are a reminder that there are truths that unite us all, make us human.

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