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…

Chatting to entrepreneur Paola Diana about Saving the World… and more…

Chatting to entrepreneur Paola Diana about Saving the World… and more… 1st May 2018

I was delighted to have the opportunity to chat with Paola Diana, bestselling author, activist and entrepreneur, who runs the Diana Group, the UK’s leading concierge service. She is recognised as one of London’s most influential service providers for high net...

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Talking Location with author Natasha Carthew – Cornwall

Talking Location with author Natasha Carthew – Cornwall 30th April 2018

#TalkingLocationWith.… Natasha Carthew author of All Rivers Run Free – sharing thoughts on writing and on Cornwall All Rivers Run Free is set in Cornwall and follows one woman’s journey downriver from the north coast to the south. For me the...

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A WW2 thriller set in 1957 Athens!

A WW2 thriller set in 1957 Athens! 30th April 2018

Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr – a WW2 thriller set in 1957 Athens. Greeks Bearing Gifts is the thirteenth Bernie Gunther thriller by Philip Kerr. Philip died of cancer on 23rd March this year. Greeks Bearing Gifts has...

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Franco-Swedish noir – set in London and Falkenberg

Franco-Swedish noir – set in London and Falkenberg 28th April 2018

Keeper by Johana Gustawsson, Franco-Swedish noir set in London and Falkenberg. Keeper is the second great noir mystery by brilliant French writer, Johana Gustawsson, to be published in English. As the first, Block 46, it is excellently translated by...

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Daniel Pembrey explores the Jordaan in Amsterdam of 1983

Daniel Pembrey explores the Jordaan in Amsterdam of 1983 27th April 2018

Initiation: Amsterdam, ’83 A Henk van der Pol short novel.  Daniel Pembrey explores the Jordaan in Amsterdam of 1983. “..the search for a Dutch-speaking middle-aged man..” Daniel’s short novel opens with ticking tension….Freddy Heineken, who is business royalty, has been...

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