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…

Murder mystery set in Whitstable

Murder mystery set in Whitstable 5th May 2020

Murder on the Downs by Julie Wassmer, murder mystery set in Whitstable. Whitstable: seafood, an intrepid heroine, the beautiful Kent coast…and murder. Read Julie Wassmer’s latest outing for private detective and restaurant owner Pearl Nolan, and you’ll conjure up...

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VENICE – 20 years since publication of this iconic novel set in the city

VENICE – 20 years since publication of this iconic novel set in the city 4th May 2020

VENICE – 20 years since publication of this iconic novel set in the city Miss Garnet’s Angel by Salley Vickers, a great book set in Venice.   I read this novel when it was first published. That was in...

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Talking Location With author Jo Jackson – EGYPT

Talking Location With author Jo Jackson – EGYPT 3rd May 2020

TalkingLocationWith... Jo Jackson, author of Too Loud a Silence and Beyond the Margin Another Cairo My debut novel was finally published thirty years after I started to write it. A story that had been waiting to be written since...

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Five great books set in THE COTSWOLDS

Five great books set in THE COTSWOLDS 2nd May 2020

The Cotswolds is the latest place to visit in our ‘Great Books‘ series. Five great books set in The Cotswolds. The Cotswolds covers a huge area – almost 800 square miles – and runs through five counties (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire,...

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Spine tingling thriller set in Iceland

Spine tingling thriller set in Iceland 1st May 2020

Cage by Lilja Sigurðardóttir – a spine tingling thriller set in Iceland, translated by Quentin Bates. Cage is the final book in Lilja’s acclaimed Reykjavík Noir trilogy. [Click here for our review of Snare, and here for our review of...

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