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 Berlin (a pertinent tale of our times)

Novel set in Berlin (a pertinent tale of our times) 18th December 2017

Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck, novel set in Berlin. Translated by Susan Bernofsky. A pertinent tale of our times. The author explores the nature of the shifting refugee population through the experiences of Richard, who is a retired...

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#TFBookClub reads “Court of Lions” set in GRANADA, SPAIN

#TFBookClub reads “Court of Lions” set in GRANADA, SPAIN 17th December 2017

#TFBookClub January/February 2018   Our first five outings for the #TFBookClub have seen us travel the world with our noses in a book: We have so far been #OnLiteraryLocation with Rosanna Ley’s The Little Theatre By The Sea (SARDINIA) We have explored the...

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Author Harriet Steel talks about her #TFBookClub experience

Author Harriet Steel talks about her #TFBookClub experience 15th December 2017

When Tina and Andrew of TripFiction very kindly chose my murder mystery, Trouble in Nuala, for the TFBookClub November read, I was delighted but, I must admit, a little apprehensive. It wasn’t the first time that one of my books...

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Thriller set along the Irish border

Thriller set along the Irish border 14th December 2017

Undertow by Anthony J Quinn – a thriller set along the Irish border. Undertow is a book of our times. It is set along the currently open border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, and debates what may...

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Talking Location with author Abi Curtis – Istanbul

Talking Location with author Abi Curtis – Istanbul 12th December 2017

#TalkingLocationWith … author Abi Curtis, whose dystopian novel Water & Glass is set in  Istanbul. Here she shares her inspiration for setting… In 2013 I was fortunate enough to be one of the winners of a Society of Author’s Somerset...

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