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 Southern Spain

Thriller set in Southern Spain 23rd January 2020

A Silent Death by Peter May, thriller set in Southern Spain. Peter May is an author who researches his locations extremely well – be they the Hebrides (The Lewis Trilogy and Coffin Road), China (The China Thrillers) or, in...

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Five great books set in BOSTON

Five great books set in BOSTON 22nd January 2020

Boston is the latest place for us to visit in our ‘Great books set in…’ series. Five great books set in Boston. ‘There is about Boston a certain reminiscent and classical tone, suggesting an authenticity and piety which few...

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Poignant novel set in Wisconsin

Poignant novel set in Wisconsin 21st January 2020

Little Faith by Nickolas Butler, poignant novel set in Wisconsin. Shortlisted for The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards “Fiction, With a Sense of Place” 2020. Set in the fictional town of Redford, Wisconsin. Peg and Lisle are hard working...

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Giveaway! – a signed copy of Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee

Giveaway! – a signed copy of Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee 20th January 2020

Giveaway – a signed copy of Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee, set in Assam (1922) and East London (1905). Death in the East is the 4th great book in the Sam Wyndham murder mystery series and can...

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Novel set largely in Benaulim, Goa

Novel set largely in Benaulim, Goa 20th January 2020

The Portuguese House by Pamela D Holloway, novel set largely in Benaulim, Goa.   Liz O’Malley is a well known writer and has won both the Booker and Whitbread Prizes in the past. Her husband, it transpires, has been...

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