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…
Lancashire: Exploring the historic county that made the modern world by Chris Moss. Lancashire came into being during the reign of the Plantagenets and has “given birth to cuisine, newspapers and magazines, regiments and dialects”. The author himself was...
Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah, novel set in Dar Es Salaam and Zanzibar. Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2026 – Fiction With A Sense Of Place The story is set between Zanzibar and Dar in the 1990s,...
Dora’s Dream by Annie Murray, historical novel set in mid 19th Century BIRMINGHAM. Dora is rescued from the Work House and ends up working as a maid in the Gordon household. It is certainly a change from the life...
Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin, murder thriller set in an Edinburgh prison. Midnight and Blue is the 26th book in Ian Rankin’s immensely successful John Rebus series. It is every bit as good as any of the others…...
#TalkingLocationWith … Kat Gordon, author of The Swell (The captivating, beautifully atmospheric Iceland-set mystery): ICELAND I already had the bones of my story by the time I came across the Bárđur Saga. I knew there would be a storyline set...
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