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…
Travel the world – Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer. Who could resist such a beguiling title? Certainly not me. Atlas of Cursed Places implores us to be courageous voyagers; throw caution to the wind and travel to...
The Spy of Venice by Benet Brandreth – novel set in Venice. We’ve got an odd relationship with Shakespeare in Britain. Sayings from his plays pepper our language and English teachers wrestle with the problem of how to work...
Black Water by Louise Doughty, novel set in Indonesia. Black Water is a very informative, and very sympathetic, read… Set in Indonesia in 1965 and 1998, it revolves around first the PKI communist uprising and then, 33 years later,...
Cartes Postales by Victoria Hislop, stories set in Greece. A sneak preview of what the reader might expect from Victoria Hislop’s new book “Cartes Postales” out on 22 September 2016. Ellie is living up in North London where life...
The Cosmopolitan Islander by M P Tonnesen, novel set in the Isle of Man. Can women have it all? What price success and happiness? What is the role and identify of women in early 21st Century in Western society?...
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