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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 mainly in New York (an edge-of-the-seat literary thriller). Guest review by Penny Feeny

Novel set mainly in New York (an edge-of-the-seat literary thriller). Guest review by Penny Feeny 9th September 2018

Believe Me by J P Delaney, novel set mainly in NEW YORK. It seems appropriate that, like the narrator of Believe Me, author J.P. Delaney is skilled at reinvention. As Anthony Capella he wrote luscious stories of food and...

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Novel set in Madrid (Más feliz que una perdiz, plus author location piece)

Novel set in Madrid (Más feliz que una perdiz, plus author location piece) 8th September 2018

Happy As a Partridge by Kate Boyle, a novel set in Madrid that reads like a memoir. You may wonder what partridges have to do with Madrid? The phrase Happy as Larry translates into Spanish as Happy as a...

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Top fiction set in Cuba (a perfect choice for literary wanderlust to the island)

Top fiction set in Cuba (a perfect choice for literary wanderlust to the island) 7th September 2018

Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton, top fiction set in Cuba It is not often that a book comes along that ticks pretty much ALL the boxes. It pulls together a good story together, it is written in...

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Novel set mainly in Catalonia

Novel set mainly in Catalonia 6th September 2018

Confessions by Jaume Cabré, novel set mainly in Catalonia. Confessions is the story of Adrìa Ardèvol, a man of sixty losing his memory to dementia, as he re-examines his life, from his lonely childhood parented by a cold and...

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Murder and mystery set in rural New Zealand

Murder and mystery set in rural New Zealand 5th September 2018

Overkill by Vanda Symon – murder and mystery set in rural New Zealand. Constable Sam Shepherd is the police presence in Mataura, a real life small town at the base of New Zealand’s South Island. Gaby, the wife of Lockie –...

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