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 Gary Raymond – Cyprus

Talking Location With author Gary Raymond – Cyprus 21st August 2018

#TalkingLocationWith… author Gary Raymond, who has set his thriller The Golden Orphans in Cyprus My new novel, The Golden Orphans, is a Graham Greene-esque thriller set on the island of Cyprus, where I lived for a little while in...

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Novel set in Oman (family life in a tight-knit community)

Novel set in Oman (family life in a tight-knit community) 20th August 2018

Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, novel set in Oman. On TripFiction we haven’t to date on our blog featured a novel that is set in Oman, and so I was keen to read Celestial Bodies and delve a little...

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GIVEAWAY: 3 top reads from the Macmillan Collector’s Library!

GIVEAWAY: 3 top reads from the Macmillan Collector’s Library! 19th August 2018

We’ve hand-picked three iconic novels from the Macmillan Collector’s Library to devise this book-ish personality quiz. Read on for more details about each of these twentieth-century classics and then decide which book you most identify with and enter our quiz to...

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Five great books set in Turkey

Five great books set in Turkey 18th August 2018

Turkey is the latest destination in our ‘Five great books set in…’ series. ‘Five great books set in Turkey‘ Turkey famously straddles East and West, the Republic including land in Anatolia, Western Asia, and part of the Balkan peninsula of...

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Historical novel set on Corsica, plus location piece by the author

Historical novel set on Corsica, plus location piece by the author 17th August 2018

The Corsican Widow by Vanessa Couchman, historical novel set on Corsica. “Tales of Corsica” The author creates a good historical setting for the storyline. The book opens in 1755, a time when Corsica was ruled by the Genoese; in 1768...

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