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A woman of Spirit by Margaret Dickinson, historical novel set in 1910s LEICESTERSHIRE Young women, Queenie and Molly, are great friends, they live near to each other and have grown up together. Both have their eye on Harry but...
Rembrandt’s Promise by Barbara Leahy, historical novel set in mid 17th Century Amsterdam. Ever since reading Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (set in Delft) and Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach (set in Amsterdam), I have been...
True Blue by Joe Thomas – a complex story set in 1980s Hackney True Blue is the third book in Joe Thomas’ The United Kingdom Trilogy covering political and social events of the Thatcher era. The Poll Tax is...
Cautery by Lucía Lijtmaer, novel set in 17th Century Massachusetts and modern Barcelona (and Madrid) TR: Maureen Shaughnessy “Funny, cutting and a savage indictment of the cheap consolations of meme-ified faux feminism, misplaced solitary solidarity, and sacrifices for the...
A Splintering by Dur e Aziz Amna, coming-of-age novel set in Rawalpindi. Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2026 – Fiction With A Sense Of Place As a child, Tara lives in the fictional village of Mazinagar....
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