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…

Introducing “Reading the City” from Comma Press

Introducing “Reading the City” from Comma Press 24th April 2021

Reading The City The Reading the City Series, published by Comma Press, celebrates the best translated short stories from around the world. Since 2006, Comma Press have sourced a selection of ten authors from specific cities to collate ten...

Read More 

Talking to author RACHEL HORE on “World Book Night” 23 April

Talking to author RACHEL HORE on “World Book Night” 23 April 23rd April 2021

TF: World Book Night: to mark the 10th Anniversary of World Book Night, Simon and Schuster have published a specially commissioned e-book “Stories To Make You Smile” (and gosh, given the last few months we certainly need some smiles in...

Read More 

Novel set in antebellum MISSISSIPPI

Novel set in antebellum MISSISSIPPI 22nd April 2021

The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr., novel set in antebellum Mississippi. This is Robert Jones Jr’s debut novel although it’s difficult to believe that for this novel is breath-taking in its excellence – powerful, emotive, ground-breaking and thought-provoking. The story...

Read More 

The Six Earth-Goddesses of Coyote’s Soundbite: A Poem for Our Planet

The Six Earth-Goddesses of Coyote’s Soundbite: A Poem for Our Planet 22nd April 2021

“Earth-lovers of the world unite!” Coyote’s Soundbite: A Poem for Our Planet by John Agard and Piet Grobler celebrates Earth and all its creatures. Full of flora, fauna, and animals of all sizes, this poetry picture book dazzles with...

Read More 

Ten Great Books set in the Amazon Rainforest

Ten Great Books set in the Amazon Rainforest 21st April 2021

The Amazon rainforest is the latest location for us to visit in our Great Books series. Ten Great Books set in the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest, covering much of northwestern Brazil and extending into Colombia, Peru and other South...

Read More 

Sign up to receive our e-newsletter

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.