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Esther Is Now Following You by Tanya Sweeney, a story of fandom set in London and Toronto. I read this for Grazia Book Club, October 2026. In London, Esther has been married to Johnny for a couple of years...
Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer, a novel of naivety set in Tuscany. This is a great novel to breathe in Tuscany, it is full of colour, arid landscapes and wonderfully crafted scenes. This is the story of...
#TalkingLocationWith …. Jim Loughran: Sicily The inspiration for novel Syracuse Will Burn Sicily first came onto my radar thirty years ago when a friend gave me a Christmas present of two books by John Julius Norwich: the Normans in...
The Little Porto Book Club by Rebecca Raisin, feel good novel set in PORTO. Viviane is newly arrived in Porto with her fretful mother. Viviane is what you might call in Portuguese a true “rato de bibliotica“, in other...
The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson, a novel of a friendship group set in Massachusetts. I very much enjoyed Pineapple Street (set in Brooklyn) by Jenny Jackson, so it was inevitable that I would be drawn to this novel,...
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