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…

Lake Union Authors (“books take us into another place, another world”)

Lake Union Authors (“books take us into another place, another world”) 30th June 2018

We have often chatted on Social Media with individual writers who are part of Lake Union Authors, a group of bestselling and award-winning authors, and here at TripFiction we have been intrigued by the camaraderie and variety of books that...

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Talking Location With author Elise Valmorbida

Talking Location With author Elise Valmorbida 29th June 2018

We recently reviewed the wonderfully atmosperic Madonna of the Mountains by Elise Valmorbida set in the Veneto (you may remember that this is the book with the wonderful cover designed by Liberty of London for Faber Books). Now Elise...

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Talking Location with author Paul French about Old Shanghai

Talking Location with author Paul French about Old Shanghai 28th June 2018

#TalkingLocationWith….. with author Paul French, rediscovering Old Shanghai, the setting for City of Devils. The old treaty port of Shanghai was ever something of an enigma – a piece of foreign-controlled soil in China with an International Settlement and a...

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Talking Location With author Holly Ringland – Australia

Talking Location With author Holly Ringland – Australia 27th June 2018

#TalkingLocationWith… author Holly Ringland, whose novel “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart” is set in Australia. “Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.” — Janet Fitch I’ve wanted to be a writer since I was three years old,...

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Novel set on the Italian Riviera and in London

Novel set on the Italian Riviera and in London 26th June 2018

The Occasional Virgin by Hannan Al-Shaykh, a novel set on the Italian Riviera and in London. If you’re in the mood for something different to read then this funny, iconoclastic and ultimately thought-provoking novel by one of the Arab...

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