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…

Talking Location With author Scott Stavrou – Venice, Prague, and the Greek Islands

Talking Location With author Scott Stavrou – Venice, Prague, and the Greek Islands 26th August 2018

TalkingLocationWith… author Scott Stavrou: Venice, Prague, and the Greek islands: Fact, Fiction, and Reinvention In an itinerant life of crossing countries and continents, I have loved many places. Just not for long. Because I moved so much as a child,...

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Cosy crime mystery set in the Luberon, Provence

Cosy crime mystery set in the Luberon, Provence 25th August 2018

Death in Provence by Serena Kent, cosy murder mystery set in the Luberon, Provence. Serena Kent is the author name of husband-and-wife writing duo, Deborah Lawrenson and Rob Rees and they clearly work well together as they have produced...

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Five great books set in Pompeii

Five great books set in Pompeii 24th August 2018

Pompeii is the latest destination in our ‘Five great books set in…’ series. ‘Five great books set in Pompeii’ Pompeii was an ancient Roman city in the Campania region of Italy. Near modern Naples, the city was buried under up...

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Novel set in Toronto (a life of smoke and mirrors)

Novel set in Toronto (a life of smoke and mirrors) 23rd August 2018

Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill, novel set in Toronto. #IsThatYou A novel that slides across genres, set in and around an existing park, Bellevue Square, in the heart of Toronto. Winner of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize Bellevue Square:...

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Historical novel set in Granada

Historical novel set in Granada 22nd August 2018

The Prisoner of Thiago by Jamie D’Antioc, historical novel set in Granada. It is the turn of the sixteenth century and the Muslim population of Andalusia are having a hard time under an extremely harsh Christian regime.  The Muslims of Granada,...

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