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…
The Man on the Street by Trevor Wood, brutal thriller set in Newcastle. The Man on the Street is Trevor Wood’s’ debut thriller – and it is a cracker. I am, I confess, a tad biased. The book is very...
Girl by Edna O’Brien, novel set in Nigeria (a Nigerian nightmare) Girl: Maryam, a young Nigerian girl, is abducted from her school dormitory by Boko Haram, and taken to a camp deep inside a desolate forest. Here, she and...
Notes from an Italian hermitage A despatch from Bologna-based author Tom Benjamin at the end of a fourth week in lockdown Most novelists live in one form of self-isolation or another – it goes with the territory. You can...
Venice is the latest place for us to visit in our ‘Great books set in…’ series. Ten great books set in VENICE. “Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.” ― Truman Capote...
A Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson, novel set on 1960 Hydra. A couple of years ago I read Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne and found it be a quite stunning novel, also set on Hydra. Lawrence Osborne...
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