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…

Memoir set in SOUTH AFRICA (the Perfect bit of Escapism)

Memoir set in SOUTH AFRICA (the Perfect bit of Escapism) 19th June 2020

An Elephant in my Kitchen: What the herd taught me about Love, Courage, and Survival by Françoise Malby-Anthony, memoir set in SOUTH AFRICA. In these weird times I think everyone is reading a bit more. It’s a wonderful form of...

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Thriller set in Boston and NEW ENGLAND

Thriller set in Boston and NEW ENGLAND 18th June 2020

House of Fire by Joseph Finder – thriller set in Boston and New England. House of Fire is the fourth book in Joseph Finder’s Nick Heller investigator series. It is the first in the series I have read (although I...

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Talking Location With author John Pakenham – KENYA

Talking Location With author John Pakenham – KENYA 17th June 2020

TalkingLocationWith .. John Pakenham, author of Walks on the Wild Side – travelogue set in Kenya. Forty years ago I was walking with tribesmen in a dangerous corner of East Africa, now fully recorded in my new book Walks on...

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Talking Location With Sara Ackerman – HAWAII

Talking Location With Sara Ackerman – HAWAII 16th June 2020

#TalkingLocationWith… Sara Ackerman, author of Red Sky over Hawaii – Hawaii. (Check out the 3-book giveaway at the bottom of this post!) One day many years ago at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (or Volcano, as we call it), I...

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Romance novel set in THE HIGHLANDS and LONDON

Romance novel set in THE HIGHLANDS and LONDON 16th June 2020

Five Hundred Miles From You by Jenny Colgan, romance novel set in The Highlands and London. Lissa is a nurse practitioner liaison, based in London. She knows her territory and patients very well. She is however knocked to the...

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