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 Sumatra

Thriller set in Sumatra 11th May 2019

Dark Horizons by Dan Smith, thriller set in Sumatra. The book opens as Alex, a 20-something young man from Newcastle, is lying on the tarmac, somewhere in Indonesia, having been thrown clear of the bus in which he was...

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Five great books set in BULGARIA

Five great books set in BULGARIA 10th May 2019

Five great books set in BULGARIA is the latest in our ‘Five great books…’ series. Bulgaria is a Balkan country, encircled by Romania, Serbia, Greece, Turkey and the Black Sea. So it’s no surprise that the territory has been fought...

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Novel set in the South of France

Novel set in the South of France 9th May 2019

The House on the Edge of the Cliff by Carol Drinkwater, novel set in the South of France. I have been very much looking forward to reading this novel. We visited Carol back in the late Summer of 2018...

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Novel set in Austria, Spain and France

Novel set in Austria, Spain and France 8th May 2019

The Oblique Place by Caterina Pascual Söderbaum, novel set in Austria, Spain and France. Based on the author’s own family history, The Oblique Place is a novel written to its title, with both meanings of the word “oblique” explored and...

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Novel set in Lebanon

Novel set in Lebanon 7th May 2019

The Storyteller by Pierre Jarawan, novel set in Lebanon.   Jarawan’s debut novel grips the reader from the start with an intriguing prologue which leaps forward twenty years to when our narrator, Samir, now grown up, is stabbed and...

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