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…

The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize LONGLIST

The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize LONGLIST 3rd February 2022

The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist …From Sri Lanka to Trinidad, Texas, and Ireland via the Middle East… The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize is choosing to celebrate voices from around the world that reflect voices from the...

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Novel set in a Victorian kitchen, England

Novel set in a Victorian kitchen, England 3rd February 2022

The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs, novel set in a Victorian kitchen, ENGLAND. It is England, 1835, and Eliza Acton, a spinster, has already had one slim volume of verse published and has laboured long and hard over her...

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Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 1st February 2022

Announcing the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022 shortlist category: Fiction With a Sense of Place. In 1853 Edward Stanford established his map-making business in the heart of London and at the height of the British Empire. His maps fuelled...

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Crime thriller set in THE HAMPTONS (Guest review by Isobel Blackthorn)

Crime thriller set in THE HAMPTONS (Guest review by Isobel Blackthorn) 1st February 2022

The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer by Joël Dicker, crime thriller set in The Hamptons.. (Guest Review by Isobel Blackthorn) Majoring in a small-town feel, The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer is a police procedural set in the wealthy area of...

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An exceptional novel set in London

An exceptional novel set in London 31st January 2022

Everything Happens For A Reason by Katie Allen, an exceptional novel set in London. Rachel does everything right in her first pregnancy and she and her husband are keenly looking forward to the birth but when her baby, Luke,...

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