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…

Novel set on a cruise liner in the Caribbean

Novel set on a cruise liner in the Caribbean 4th September 2019

The Floating Feldmans by Elyssa Friedland, novel set on a cruise liner in the Caribbean. Joining the Feldmans on the Ocean Queen would be my idea of hell. Clearly Annette, sporadic matriarch of the Feldman clan doesn’t agree. She...

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Five great books set in BELFAST

Five great books set in BELFAST 3rd September 2019

Belfast is the latest city for us to visit in our ‘Great books set in…’ series. Five great books set in Belfast. ‘I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn’t there in the Seventies. There was a war going...

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Novel set in 1930s Winchester (sic parvis magna*)

Novel set in 1930s Winchester (sic parvis magna*) 2nd September 2019

 A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier, novel set in 1930s Winchester. Violet Speedwell is a woman in her later 30s who is trying to make her way in the world, at a time when women had very little freedom...

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Sail to Bermuda with a book

Sail to Bermuda with a book 1st September 2019

TripFiction were privileged to be invited recently to the naming ceremony of the GoToBermuda boat, about to set sail from London on the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. This amazing race is the brainchild of legendary sailor Sir...

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Five great books set in BERMUDA

Five great books set in BERMUDA 31st August 2019

Bermuda is the latest country for us to visit in our ‘Great books set in…’ series. Five great books set in Bermuda. Rum. The triangle. Coral reefs. Golf courses. Sailing. Shorts. Fish chowder. Bermuda is known for a lot...

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