Blogs in February 2024

Talking Location With Yangsze Choo – CHINA

Talking Location With Yangsze Choo – CHINA 20th February 2024

#TalkingLocationWith… Yangsze Choo, author of The Fox Wife, set in CHINA (MANCHURIA) and JAPAN When I started writing The Fox Wife, I was lucky enough to visit the famous historic gardens in Hangzhou and Suzhou, on which I based...

Read More 

Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain 19th February 2024

Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera, How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain. I was hunting around for something to take with me on a trip to India, something that would inform and help me reflect on the experiences in the country...

Read More 

Novel set in 1972 WEST BANK (Palestine)

Novel set in 1972 WEST BANK (Palestine) 16th February 2024

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh, novel set in 1972 West Bank. TR: Trevor LeGassick and Elizabeth Fernea. This story is set in 1972  was first published in 1976 and tells the story of Usama al-Karmi, who has been working...

Read More 

Author Eva Glyn talks to a Dubrovnik Defender

Author Eva Glyn talks to a Dubrovnik Defender 15th February 2024

Author Eva Glyn talks to a Dubrovnik Defender On 1st October 1991, Serbian and Montenegrin forces took the high ground above Dubrovnik and laid siege to the city, isolating it and over the ensuing months pouring down a barrage...

Read More 

Chilling murder mystery set in OSLO

Chilling murder mystery set in OSLO 14th February 2024

The Ice Swimmer by Kjell Ola Dahl, chilling murder mystery set in Oslo and surrounding countryside during the frozen winter month of December. TR: Don Bartlett The Ice Swimmer is the sixth in Dahl’s Oslo Detective series and starts...

Read More