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…

Expat life – novel set in São Paulo

Expat life – novel set in São Paulo 19th March 2018

Feast Days by Ian Mackenzie, novel set in São Paulo. Billed as a “small novel with huge ambition” I was drawn to read this novel because the publicity stated: “So, we were Americans abroad. We weren’t the doomed travellers...

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WIN a copy of Dream of Venice Architecture

WIN a copy of Dream of Venice Architecture 18th March 2018

We are delighted to be able to offer you a copy of Dream of Venice Architecture in our latest giveaway! Check out our review of the book. Dream of Venice Architecture is an amazing coffee table book that will...

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Five great books set in Naples

Five great books set in Naples 18th March 2018

Five great books set in NAPLES. #FiveGreatBooks For the first of our new ‘Five great books set in…..’ series, we have chosen Naples. Pizza, ice cream, history, art, crime, a beautiful coastline, garbage-lined streets. Whatever you think of Naples, Italy’s...

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Novel set in Bogotá (Manicures. Massage. Murder)

Novel set in Bogotá (Manicures. Massage. Murder) 17th March 2018

House of Beauty by  Melba Escobar, novel set in Bogotá. “..men do whatever they like, while we women do what falls to us.” I have never knowingly read a novel set in Bogotá and was delighted to immerse myself...

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Dream of Venice Architecture

Dream of Venice Architecture 16th March 2018

Dream of Venice Architecture – JoAnn Locktov (Editor), Riccardo de Cal (Photographer), Richard J Goy (Author) This is the second pictorial book in the “Dream of Venice” series, Here, contemporary architects and architectural writers share their personal experience of...

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