Blog Archive

Check through the Blog posts below to find our latest extended book reviews, our #TalkingLocationWith … pieces, and our views on matters of general literary interest. Search by either Location or by the Keywords you would like to come up in the results…

Psychological thriller set in Saint Gervais, FRENCH ALPS

Psychological thriller set in Saint Gervais, FRENCH ALPS 20th March 2023

Bright and Deadly Things by Lexie Elliott, psychological thriller set in Saint Gervais, Haute Savoie, French Alps. The Alps: “…I think there is something incredibly clean about it all: the verdant  greens of the slopes before the grey alpine...

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Talking Location With author Kim Sherwood – DEVON

Talking Location With author Kim Sherwood – DEVON 17th March 2023

#TalkingLocationWith … Kim Sherwood, author of A Wild & True Relation DEVON A Wild & True Relation opens on the night of the Great Storm in Devon in 1703. Smuggling captain Tom West comes ashore in a rage, believing his...

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Gothic mystery set in RYE, East Sussex

Gothic mystery set in RYE, East Sussex 16th March 2023

So Pretty by Ronnie Turner, gothic mystery set in Rye, East Sussex. There is a slow wind up to this gothic horror novel, carefully setting the scene, strumming the chords of disquiet and unease as the pathos and storyline...

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Novel set in India

Novel set in India 15th March 2023

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff, novel set in INDIA (Uttar Pradesh) Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023. This is such a competently put together novel and very evocative of India. Geeta’s abusive husband, Ramesh, disappeared 5...

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Mystery set around Scotland

Mystery set around Scotland 14th March 2023

The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone, mystery set around Scotland. A #BetweenTheCovers Book Club pick – on BBC2 this Spring (2023) One evening a meteor streaks across the sky above Edinburgh and that same night sixteen stroke cases...

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