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…
Do you fancy reading The Concubine’s Child by Carol Jones, a novel set in beautiful Malaysia? It’s a great book… In 1930s Malaya a sixteen-year-old girl, dreaming of marriage to her sweetheart, is sold as a concubine to a rich...
Brazil is the latest destination in our ‘Great books set in…’ series. Five great books set in Brazil. ‘I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to...
Australia is the latest country for us to visit in our Great Books series. Five great book set in Australia. “People who say ‘There’s nothing to fear from spiders’ have clearly never been to Australia”. Cate Blanchett Australia is...
#TalkingLocationWith… William Rose, author of ‘Camille and the Raising of Eros’ Andalusia, the South of Spain. What comes to mind? Flamenco perhaps. That might be the first thought. And colours, bright in the heat of the Summer sun, and...
The Booker Prize claims to be ‘the leading literary award in the English speaking world, which has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years‘. It is awarded annually to the best novel of the year...
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