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…

Best Bookish Social Media accounts to make you smile

Best Bookish Social Media accounts to make you smile 6th June 2020

Best Bookish Social Media accounts to make you smile It’s really lovely to see something a little bit different. So we thought we would share three interesting accounts – with books at their heart – with you. Share with...

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Five great books with racial issues at their heart

Five great books with racial issues at their heart 5th June 2020

Five great books with racial issues at their heart. Here at TripFiction we love bringing you books with a strong sense of place, where the author transports you to a destination through powerful use of language and imagery. We...

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Memoir of being a birder in the British Isles (visiting the seabird cities)

Memoir of being a birder in the British Isles (visiting the seabird cities) 4th June 2020

The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds by Stephen Rutt, a memoir of being a birder in the British Isles. Unless the publisher had flagged this book, I perhaps would never have picked it up. Despite knowing little to nothing...

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Novel set in 19th Century Tsarist Russia (Belarus, Poland)

Novel set in 19th Century Tsarist Russia (Belarus, Poland) 3rd June 2020

The Slaughterman’s Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits, novel set in 19th century Tsarist Russia (Belarus, Poland). It is 1894 and Mende Speismann is struggling.  Her good-for-nothing husband abandoned Mende and her two girls ten months ago and disappeared off to...

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Hay Festival Digital 2020 – better than the real thing?

Hay Festival Digital 2020 – better than the real thing? 2nd June 2020

Hay Festival Digital 2020 – better than the real thing? The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts has been held at beautiful Hay-on-Wye, just inside the Welsh border, since 1988. For 10 days in May and June, this picturesque...

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