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 Paris, plus we chat with author Michelle Moran

Novel set in Paris, plus we chat with author Michelle Moran 29th July 2016

Mata Hari by Michelle Moran, novel set in Paris. This is the story of Margaretha Zelle who morphed into the alluring and beautiful Mata Hari, spy, lover, dancer – true events are rolled into a fictional account of this...

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Novella set in Italy

Novella set in Italy 27th July 2016

Errors of Evaluation by Paola Pica, novella set in Italy. It is a while since I read a novella and this reminded me that once in a while it is enjoyable to read a story in one sitting, there...

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Novel set in Croatia plus the author’s top ten books set there.

Novel set in Croatia plus the author’s top ten books set there. 25th July 2016

The People We Were Before by Annabelle Thorpe, novel set in Croatia. 1979 – 1995 is a period in Balkan history that dominated the news, that lodged places like Kosovo, Krajina and Srebrenica in the world’s consciousness, whilst leaders...

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YA novel set in LONDON

YA novel set in LONDON 23rd July 2016

LONDON Belongs To Us by Sarra Manning, YA novel set in LONDON. “A city of eight million people. Eight million lives. Eight million stories. This is just one of them” We first came across this book via Books on the...

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Thriller set in Iraq (then and now…)

Thriller set in Iraq (then and now…) 21st July 2016

The Girl In Green by Derek B Miller, thriller set in Iraq. It is 1991 in Iraq – the first Gulf War is drawing to a close. Arwood Hobbes, a US soldier, is manning a border outpost. Thomas Benton,...

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