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…

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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Talking Location with author Nicky Gentil – Paris

Talking Location with author Nicky Gentil – Paris 19th February 2020

#TalkingLocationWith… Nicky Gentil, author of Taxi Tales From Paris. I have always loved reading ‘Brit abroad’ books – Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence and Stephen Clarke’s comically titled A Year in the Merde being two examples that immediately spring...

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Novel set in mainly in Tuscany

Novel set in mainly in Tuscany 18th February 2020

It Happened in Tuscany by Gail Mencini, novel set mainly in Tuscany. The book opens as a platoon, during WW2, is fighting for survival at Riva Ridge in the Apennines. Will Mills is one of those men, he gets...

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GIVEAWAY! 3 copies of A House At The End Of The Track – Ariège (France)

GIVEAWAY! 3 copies of A House At The End Of The Track – Ariège (France) 17th February 2020

Fancy winning a copy of A House At The End Of The Track by Michelle Lawson, a travelogue set in France? Intrigued by the endless accounts of English incomers `living the dream’ in France, Michelle Lawson set out to...

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