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…
Echoes of the City by Lars Saabye Christensen, family novel set in post WW2 Oslo – translated by Don Bartlett. Echoes of the City is a beautifully written and beautifully translated novel. It describes life for one family in...
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout, novel set in fictional Crosby, Maine. The name of the fictional town of Crosby is a tribute to the author’s room mate in college, Ellen Crosby. The first “Olive” novel was simply titled “Olive...
Hong Kong is the latest place for us to visit in our ‘Great books set in…’ series. Five great books set in Hong Kong. ‘Life in Hong Kong transcends cultural and culinary borders, such that nothing is truly foreign...
A View Across the Rooftops by Suzanne Kelman, novel set in WW2 Amsterdam. ‘Carefully standing to the side he pressed his face flat against the wall, his gaze stretched across the red tiled rooftops than ran all the way...
We are delighted to give you the opportunity to win one of 3 copies of THE WICKED GAME by Michelle Lawson, set in Kathmandu. On a mission to change her predictable life, recently divorced Kate sets up a small...
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