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…

Memoirs set in Calabria (the dolce vita calabrese)

Memoirs set in Calabria (the dolce vita calabrese) 18th July 2019

Beached in Calabria by Ian Ross, memoirs set in Calabria. Calabria in the toe of Italy: “Europe’s most colourful and least understood extremity..” Why look for a home in Calabria? You might ask! Well, the author does a fine...

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Penguin talks to authors about the book that changed their summer

Penguin talks to authors about the book that changed their summer 17th July 2019

A rather lovely link dropped into my inbox recently and it came from Penguin Books. Several authors talk about the book that changed their summer for a variety of reasons, but for us Gytha Lodge’s contribution really rang a...

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Five great books set in Peru

Five great books set in Peru 16th July 2019

Five great books set in PERU. Peru is the latest stop on our ‘Great books set in….’ series. ‘If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor‘ – William Prescott, The Conquest of Peru (1847)....

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Novel set on Guernsey

Novel set on Guernsey 15th July 2019

The Inheritance by Anne Allen, novel set on Guernsey. The Inheritance is a dual timeline novel set in the second half of the 19th Century and 2012, and the links between the two stories are a house – the...

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Giveaway – two books set in Sicily!

Giveaway – two books set in Sicily! 14th July 2019

Are you thinking of a holiday to Sicily? Then you need these two books! The new Marco Polo SICILY guide book My Lemon Grove Summer by Jo Thomas, set on the island and beautifully evocative! Could the lemon groves...

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