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…
Travel to Sicily with author Nicky Pellegrino for a Food of Love Tour 4-10 October 2020. People kept telling me that I had inspired them to visit Italy. I’ve written 11 novels set there, mostly in the south in...
The Women At Hitler’s Table by Rosella Postorino, novel set in Gross Partsch, Germany (now Parcz, Poland), translated by Leah Janeczko. People use love to justify all kinds of things….. At the end of the novel, the author...
The Lake District is the latest place for us to visit in our ‘Great books set in…’ series. Five great books set in The Lake District. ‘You may leave the Lake District, but once you’ve been, it’ll never leave...
A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, a family story set in Italy (both sad and uplifting) – translated by Ann Goldstein. A Girl Returned is a thought provoking and sensitive book. It is also beautifully translated by Ann...
Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas, an important novel set in Spain A compelling novel in which the central narrative is bookended by the author-narrator’s own story of how he came to write an account of poet, national hero...
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