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…
#TalkingLocationWith… author Simon Edge, who has set his novel, The Hurtle of Hell, in the Canary Islands, and how La Gomera inspired the setting. It was 2001, and my then-partner and I had developed a taste for exploring off-the-beaten...
#TalkingLocationWith…. author Kim Sherwood. She talks to us about Budapest and Hungary, the setting for her novel Testament. My debut novel, Testament, is about the impact of the Holocaust on three generations of a family, and stretches from Hungary in...
Croatia is the latest destination in our ‘Five great books set in…’ series. ‘Five great books set in Croatia’. As one of our book selections below describes, Croatia is a nation ‘forged in war’, emerging only in 1991 as a...
The Bookshop is a film of the novel of the same name by Penelope Fitzgerald, set along the verdant coast of fictional Hardborough in East Anglia, under Spanish direction. Inspired no doubt by the work of Carlos Ruis Zafón...
Cold Desert Sky by Rod Reynolds, thriller set in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Rod’s first two novels in his Charlie Yates thriller series (The Dark Inside and Black Night Falling) were set in Texarkana and Hot Springs –...
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