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…

Talking Location With Author Alice Allan – Addis Ababa

Talking Location With Author Alice Allan – Addis Ababa 28th February 2017

#TalkingLocationWith…. author Alice Allan, who will inspire you to visit Addis Ababa! I lived in Ethiopia for four years when my young family and I were posted there with my husband’s job. As a diplomatic family, we’d lived abroad...

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Novel set in the Hebrides, plus author Q&A

Novel set in the Hebrides, plus author Q&A 27th February 2017

Sealskin by Su Bristow, novel set in the Hebrides. Sealskin brilliantly re-works the North European myth of the selkie – a phantastic creature that is a seal until it sheds its skin to take on human form and character....

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A Long Way Home – memoir set in India and Australia

A Long Way Home – memoir set in India and Australia 26th February 2017

A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley, memoir set in India and Australia. Two small children run through the main train station in Pushkar, bright red mud and sand caked into their hair. They pull at our trousers and...

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The Break Down, thriller set in a fictional English town

The Break Down, thriller set in a fictional English town 25th February 2017

The Break Down by B A Paris – thriller set in a fictional English town. Cass Anderson has promised Matthew, her slightly over-protective husband, that she will not take a short cut down Blackwater Lane on her way home from...

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Talking Location With Author Alexandra Burt – Texas (“I had a feeling of coming home”)

Talking Location With Author Alexandra Burt – Texas (“I had a feeling of coming home”) 24th February 2017

#TalkingLocationWith... author Alexandra Burt. She shares her struggle to warm to Texas, but when she finally did….. I grew up in the East Hesse highlands of Germany, a densely forested low mountain area. A most magical region where I roamed...

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