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…

Slow burning mystery set in New York City

Slow burning mystery set in New York City 8th April 2020

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, slow burning mystery set in New York City. Shay Miller is standing on the subway platform at 33rd Street. She is next to a woman, whom she later comes...

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10 Great Books set in PROVENCE

10 Great Books set in PROVENCE 7th April 2020

Provence is the latest place for us to visit in our ‘Great books set in…’ series. 10 Great Books set in Provence .Provence, a region in southeastern France bordering Italy and the Mediterranean Sea, is known for its diverse...

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Brutal thriller set in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Brutal thriller set in Newcastle-upon-Tyne 6th April 2020

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...

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Novel set in NIGERIA (a true Nigerian nightmare)

Novel set in NIGERIA (a true Nigerian nightmare) 5th April 2020

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...

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Notes from an Italian hermitage – despatches from BOLOGNA #3

Notes from an Italian hermitage – despatches from BOLOGNA #3 4th April 2020

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...

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