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…
#BehindTheScenes We’ve been selling books aboard our 100 year old Dutch barge – originally called ‘Dianti’ but now known as ‘Word on the Water’ – for ten years now, and have thus become experts in a truly tiny field....
Madam by Phoebe Wynne, novel set in Scotland. Rose Christie, young Classics teacher, secures a job at Caldonbrae Hall, a boarding school for girls set in an ancestral castle in remote Scotland. It is something of an achievement as...
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain, novella set in Paris. Translated by Emily Boyce and Jane Aitken. “Soaked in Parisian atmosphere, this lovely, clever, funny novel will have you rushing to the Eurostar post-haste” (Daily Mail) Laurent owns a...
The Therapist by B A Paris, suburban noir set in Finsbury Park, London. Another audiobook to accompany me on my Covid walks (you would think, by now, that I am rake thin with all this exercise, but no such...
#TalkingLocationWith… Julie Anderson, author of Oracle – Delphi Delphi nestles in the slopes of Mount Parnassus, at over eight thousand feet one of the highest and largest mountains in Greece, which towers over the Gulf of Corinth. Its name...
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