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…

Thriller set in Alaska (No Fixed Line)

Thriller set in Alaska (No Fixed Line) 25th February 2020

No Fixed Line by Dana Stabenow, thriller set in Alaska. No Fixed Line is the 22nd title in Dana Stabenow’s Kate Shugak Alaskan thriller series. I am embarrassed to say that it the first I have read. It won’t...

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GIVEAWAY prizes! – 3 copies of “The Order of Time” set WASHINGTON DC

GIVEAWAY prizes! – 3 copies of “The Order of Time” set WASHINGTON DC 24th February 2020

We are delighted to be able to offer each of 3 winners a copy of The Order of Time by Scott Southall, a YA fantasy and time-slip novel set in Washington DC (contemporary with a trip back to Ancient Egypt)....

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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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