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…

Novel set in small town USA

Novel set in small town USA 24th March 2018

Tall Oaks by Chris Whitaker, novel set in small town USA. Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award   Whitaker’s debut novel has been compared to David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” and there are obvious similarities –...

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TripFiction – so much more than a database and book reviews

TripFiction – so much more than a database and book reviews 23rd March 2018

TripFiction – so much more than a database and book reviews. We launched TripFiction a few years ago to provide an easily searchable database of books with a strong sense of place, and to help the reader see a location...

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Novel set in London and around the world – Mile High encounters

Novel set in London and around the world – Mile High encounters 22nd March 2018

The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton, novel set in London and around the world. Juliette, formerly known as Elisabeth/Lily, has experienced a great deal of loss, rejection and abandonment in her life. Her mother had moods and Elisabeth, as she...

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Spy thriller set in Colombia and London

Spy thriller set in Colombia and London 21st March 2018

Crisis by Frank Gardner – spy thriller set in Colombia and London. Crisis was published in June 2016, and has been on my TBR (To Be Read) pile pretty much ever since. I wanted to read the book because...

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Ten great books set in RUSSIA

Ten great books set in RUSSIA 20th March 2018

Russia is the latest country for us to visit in our ‘Ten great books set in…’ series. ‘Ten great books set in Russia’. Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest...

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