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…

From Sausalito to France (a memoir of barging on the French waterways)

From Sausalito to France (a memoir of barging on the French waterways) 18th September 2018

From Here To Paris by Cris Hammond, barging on the French waterways “Tell us what you’ve seen in far away forgotten lands” (The Moody Blues) Cris loses his job and has to rethink his life. His first new venture is...

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Novel set in Cambridgeshire (the author is the Queen of creepy storytelling)

Novel set in Cambridgeshire (the author is the Queen of creepy storytelling) 17th September 2018

The Lingering by SJI Holliday, novel set in Cambridgeshire. Rosalind House has a chequered history. For many years it was an asylum and by the 1950s it had become a psychiatric unit. Today, it houses a community of disparate...

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Win a Corfu villa holiday for eight, or a fabulous Eurocamp experience!

Win a Corfu villa holiday for eight, or a fabulous Eurocamp experience! 15th September 2018

This month we have joined forces with our partners, Silver Travel Advisor, to offer you a fabulous first prize of a week’s beach villa holiday for eight people at one of CV Villas homes in beautiful Corfu. Why not take a...

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Talking Location With author Katri Skala – Trieste

Talking Location With author Katri Skala – Trieste 15th September 2018

#TalkingLocationWith… Katri Skala, author of A Perfect Mother which is mainly set in the city. Long before I visited Trieste I yearned for it. It’s one of those places that looms large in the imagination of writers: it’s connected with exile...

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A big and ambitious novel set in New York

A big and ambitious novel set in New York 14th September 2018

The Hazards Of Good Fortune by Seth Greenland – a big and ambitious novel set in New York. The Hazards Of Good Fortune is a story of riches and intrigue. Jay Gladstone, his sister Bebe, and his brother Franklin...

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