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…
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam, novel set in Sri Lanka. If an author sets a novel largely on a train, it becomes a vehicle in its own right for reflection and recollection. Thus it is that Krishan is...
The Guesthouse at Lobster Bay by Annie Robertson, romcom set in Scotland. The novel opens with a traumatic bang that prompts Emma to re-evaluate her life and, yes, she chooses a new path, away from London and her all-consuming...
#TalkingLocationWith….Georgie Hall, author of Woman of a Certain Rage Stratford upon Avon, inextricably linked with William Shakespeare, is a gift of a setting for a writer, whether reimagining the Bard’s family life, plotting dastardly murders in its half-timbered alleys,...
Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner, mystery novel set in New York and Cape Cod. Daphne Berg used to be friends with glamorous and wealthy Drue Cavanagh at college but frankly, Drue was a bully and found her entertainment by...
Kyōto is the latest location for our ‘Ten Great Books Set In…’ series. Ten great books set in Kyōto. Kyōto, once the capital of Japan, is a city on the island of Honshu. It’s famous for its numerous classical Buddhist...
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