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…
The Canary Islands and Me: the Origins of Sense of Place in Fiction. TalkingLocationWith … author Isobel Blackthorn. For authors, cultivating a sense of place in fiction is rarely a process of sticking a pin in a map and...
From a courageous suffragette princess to forgotten football legends, spirit-talking sisters and a WW2 spy, the world’s greatest writers to STEM superstars… March marks Women’s History Month and to celebrate our Kid’s Lit Writer in Residence has compiled an...
#TalkingLocationWith... Anna Mazzola, author of The Clockwork Girl – 18th Century PARIS. Why Paris? Well, firstly because it was one of the centres for automata-making in the 18th century, and I wanted to write a novel about an automaton-maker....
The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually by Helen Cullen, novel set mainly off the coast of Galway. The setting of Inis Óg is inspired by the author’s childhood visit to Inis Oírr. She chose not to use the actual island...
Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson, three short stories set in Barcelona. Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022, Fiction, With a Sense of Place. Barcelona is the star at the heart of these three stories, from Sarrià...
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