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…

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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Calcutta – ‘the thing to see is the city itself’

Calcutta – ‘the thing to see is the city itself’ 15th March 2018

I was delighted to find this evocative article about Calcutta (Kolkata) by Kushanava Choudhury, writing in Holidaymag. I have never been to India but the writer paints an intoxicating picture of this fascinating city on the sub-continent, and invites the...

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Novel set mostly in New York and San Francisco – The Immortalists

Novel set mostly in New York and San Francisco – The Immortalists 14th March 2018

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin, novel set mostly in New York and San Francisco. Chloe Benjamin’s substantial second novel poses the somewhat disturbing question – How would we live if we knew the date of our death? The opening...

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Talking Location with author R D Stevens – Laos

Talking Location with author R D Stevens – Laos 13th March 2018

#TalkingLocationWith…..R D Stevens, author of The Journal set in South East Asia. Here the author focusses on Laos.   When I first had the idea for my debut novel The Journal, I wanted to create a story that revolved around...

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A thriller set in the Swiss Alps (plus a piece by the translator…)

A thriller set in the Swiss Alps (plus a piece by the translator…) 12th March 2018

Damnation by Peter Beck – a thriller set in the Swiss Alps (translated by Jamie Bulloch). Damnation is a brilliant thriller, everything a page turner should be… It is firmly set in Switzerland with side excursions to Egypt, Norway,...

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