Blogs in January 2024

Thriller set on a transatlantic crossing – ATLANTIC

Thriller set on a transatlantic crossing – ATLANTIC 24th January 2024

Five Nights by Rachel Wolf, thriller set on a transatlantic Atlantic crossing. Meet the Scamardo family: think Succession Italian style, via Newcastle upon Tyne. Mattia is the ageing head of the family, now married to Belle, a younger woman...

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Novel set in BROOKLYN

Novel set in BROOKLYN 23rd January 2024

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, novel set in Brooklyn. #fromourbookshelves Long Island is the long awaited sequel to the wonderful novel Brooklyn, coming in May 2024. It therefore seems like a good opportunity to re-run our original review of Brooklyn...

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Novel set in 1915 as the Lusitania crosses the ATLANTIC

Novel set in 1915 as the Lusitania crosses the ATLANTIC 22nd January 2024

Death on the Lusitania by R L Graham, novel set in 1915 as the Lusitania crosses the Atlantic. Patrick Gallagher is taking a British diplomat back to England for questioning and possible sentencing, his misdeed appears to be that...

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Novel set in AUCKLAND

Novel set in AUCKLAND 19th January 2024

Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly, novel set in AUCKLAND, New Zealand. Greta and Valdin is set in New Zealand’s multicultural capital, Auckland. It centres on three generations of one extended family. The narrators are Greta, a master’s...

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Novel set across Europe, Moscow and fantasy locations

Novel set across Europe, Moscow and fantasy locations 18th January 2024

The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers, novel set across Europe, Moscow and fantasy locations. Settings: Prague, Paris, Vienna, Moscow and fantasy locations City of Stardust by Georgia Summers is a wonderful, diverting fantasy novel which switches between real-life...

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