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In Bloody Scotland’s 10th Anniversary year, a clear longlist of ten emerged after the readers scores were tallied. The longlist for the McIlvanney Prize 2022 – which is dominated by two Scottish independent publishers, Canongate and Polygon and sponsored...
That Green Eyed Girl by Julie Owen Moylan, dual timeline novel set mainly in New York, 1955 and 1975. The chapters almost alternate between 1955 and 1975. An apartment in 1955 sees Dovie and Gillian living together, two women...
Ocean State by Stewart O’Nan, novel set in Rhode Island. Well, the hardback book cover really caught my eye, so I picked this novel up with enthusiasm. This is the story of mum, Carol, and of her two young...
Giveaway: 3 copies of Goshawk Summer by James Aldred, set in the New Forest. In early 2020, wildlife cameraman James Aldred was commissioned to film the lives of a family of Goshawks in the New Forest, his childhood home....
#TalkingLocationWith... Mark Ellis, author of Dead in the Water, set in WW2 LONDON Researching Frank Merlin’s Wartime London I write a series about DCI Frank Merlin, a Scotland Yard detective working in World War 2 London. There are five...
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