Blogs in July 2025

Novel set in LONDON and PARIS

Novel set in LONDON and PARIS 9th July 2025

Double Room by Anne Sénès, novel set in London and Paris. TR: Alice Banks   1990s. Stan is a promising French composer who has landed in London. He is working on a theatrical adaptation of “The Picture of Dorian...

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Talking Location With … Amelia Blackwell: PLYMOUTH and DERBYSHIRE

Talking Location With … Amelia Blackwell: PLYMOUTH and DERBYSHIRE 8th July 2025

#TalkingLocationWith … Amelia Blackwell, author of A Crime Through Time (Miss Darcy Investigates) How a rainy week of high school work experience inspired a novel. Pemberley, 1799. When Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal, she...

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Memoir set in MÁLAGA

Memoir set in MÁLAGA 7th July 2025

It Started With Malaga by Karen O’Connor, memoir set in Málaga. Málaga is one of those cities – billed as Spain’s most hospitable city – that is only rarely on travellers’ radars. People pass through it, given it has...

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Talking Location With Shelley Dark: HYDRA, Greece

Talking Location With Shelley Dark: HYDRA, Greece 4th July 2025

#TalkingLocationWith… Shelley Dark, author of Hydra in Winter: HYDRA, Greece Hydra in Winter isn’t your typical Greek island memoir. Instead of sunlit beaches and sizzling sophistication, this is Hydra stripped bare, mostly silent, and strikingly beautiful. A place with no...

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Police procedural set in SOUTHAMPTON / NEW FOREST

Police procedural set in SOUTHAMPTON / NEW FOREST 3rd July 2025

Gallows Wood by Louisa Scarr, police procedural set in SOUTHAMPTON / NEW FOREST, Hampshire. Gallows Wood by Louisa Scarr is the fantastic first in a series of police procedural thrillers with a police dog handler as the main character....

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