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…

Mystery set in Naples

Mystery set in Naples 10th November 2016

Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone by Maurizio de Giovanni (translated by Antony Shugaar) – mystery set in Naples. Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone is the follow on to The Bastards of Pizzofalcone. It has largely the same...

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Talking location with Lynne Shelby – Paris

Talking location with Lynne Shelby – Paris 9th November 2016

#TalkingLocationWith… Author Lynne Shelby who takes us to her Paris and shares her top tips for a visit to the city. Strolling along the stone quays beside the Seine on a summer evening, I knew that this scene –...

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A romance novel set in Rome

A romance novel set in Rome 8th November 2016

The Lover’s Guide to Rome by Mark Lamprell, a romance novel set in Rome. This is a cracking novel, delightfully set in Rome. It is a book that has the TripFiction remit written all over it, there is a...

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Talking Location with author Frank Kusy – India

Talking Location with author Frank Kusy – India 6th November 2016

#TalkingLocationWith…. author Frank Kusy, who has been going to India for many years and recounts his many adventures in his books. Half a lifetime ago, a wonderful man (and my Buddhist mentor) called Dick Causton set me on the...

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Novel set in Japan

Novel set in Japan 5th November 2016

The Shogun’s Queen, by Lesley Downer, novel set in Japan of the 1850s. This is the fictionalised story from the women’s perspective of the latter years rule of the Tokugawa shogunate. It was a period of stability, economic prosperity,...

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