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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…

Five great books set in BOLIVIA

Five great books set in BOLIVIA 24th February 2020

Bolivia is the latest place for us to visit in our ‘Great books set in…’ series. Five great books set in Bolivia. “Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin” – Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins...

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Random musings on recent book cover designs

Random musings on recent book cover designs 22nd February 2020

Random musings on recent book cover designs. Every now and then I like to muse on the book jackets that slide across my desk and I often find myself wondering which book would actually catch my eye in a...

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American Dirt – novel set mainly in Mexico

American Dirt – novel set mainly in Mexico 21st February 2020

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, novel set mainly in Mexico. The book is causing rather a to-do in the publishing world at the moment. Author Jeanine Cummins – a white American, albeit with some Puerto Rican heritage – has been accused...

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The TripFiction Book Club March/April 2020 reads ‘The Night Tiger’ by Yangsze Choo

The TripFiction Book Club March/April 2020 reads ‘The Night Tiger’ by Yangsze Choo 20th February 2020

#TFBookClubMarch/April 2020 For those TripFiction fans who don’t already know, we have a TripFiction Book Club that we kicked off back in March 2017 with a romantic journey to beautiful Sardinia, along with author Rosanna Ley and her vivid characters. Head...

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Memoir set in UK (searching for asterisms*)

Memoir set in UK (searching for asterisms*) 20th February 2020

Under the Stars by Matt Gaw, memoir set in UK. “Most people live in places where the glow of artificial light will trespass into their lives…” A couple of weeks ago I spent the evening and some of the...

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