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 mainly in the Orthodox Jewish community in ANTWERP

Memoir set mainly in the Orthodox Jewish community in ANTWERP 15th June 2020

Mazel Tov by J S Margot, memoir set in the modern Orthodox Jewish community in Antwerp. The 20 year old author applied for a job to work as a tutor for the four children of the Schneider family (she...

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GIVEAWAY! – 3 copies of Red Sky over Hawaii (U.S. entries only)

GIVEAWAY! – 3 copies of Red Sky over Hawaii (U.S. entries only) 14th June 2020

We are delighted to be able to give away to our American visitors 3 copies of Red Sky over Hawaii by Sara Ackerman, set in beautiful Hawaii. RED SKY OVER HAWAII BY SARA ACKERMAN Inspired by real places and...

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Blood-curdling thriller set in LONDON

Blood-curdling thriller set in LONDON 14th June 2020

Blood Red City by Rod Reynolds – blood-curdling thriller set in London. Rod is the successful British author of the Charlie Yates Detective Series set in 1940s America (The Dark Inside, Black Night Falling, and Cold Desert Sky). They...

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Five great books set in WALES

Five great books set in WALES 13th June 2020

Wales is the latest place for us to visit in our ‘Great books set in…’ series. Five great books set in Wales. ‘Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of...

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Novel set in MAINE (a riveting read for the #MeToo movement)

Novel set in MAINE (a riveting read for the #MeToo movement) 12th June 2020

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell, novel set in Maine. This is an unsettling novel, and it’s one that I suspect will stay with me a while after turning the final page. A 42 year-old English teacher at an...

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