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…

Author Interview with Nina George (plus review of The Little Paris Bookshop set in FRANCE)

Author Interview with Nina George (plus review of The Little Paris Bookshop set in FRANCE) 14th January 2016

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George, set in France. Plus Nina talks to us openly about her passions and writing…. As if any reader needed telling that books and reading books are good for the soul! This is...

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Mystery set in Brighton (“So good that I’ve already bought the next two in the Mirabelle Bevan Mystery Series”)

Mystery set in Brighton (“So good that I’ve already bought the next two in the Mirabelle Bevan Mystery Series”) 11th January 2016

Brighton Belle by Sara Sheridan, mystery set in Brighton of the 1950s.   1951 sees Mirabelle Bevan retired from her wartime job with the Secret Service and living a rather lonely and limited life in Brighton. Following the death...

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Book Brand Madness – a case study

Book Brand Madness – a case study 9th January 2016

At TripFiction we just love finding new books that will transport a reader to a new location, for a bit of armchair travel coupled with a good storyline. For a while now I have been wanting to check out...

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Novel set in the Atlantic and the West Country (sauve qui peut)

Novel set in the Atlantic and the West Country (sauve qui peut) 8th January 2016

The Crossing by Andrew Miller, novel set in the Atlantic (and the West Country). Andrew Miller won the Costa Award in 2011 with his sixth novel Pure (set in 1780s Paris). Who is Maud? What does she stand for?...

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Novel set in France (the book Scarlett Johansson – allegedly* – tried to ban)

Novel set in France (the book Scarlett Johansson – allegedly* – tried to ban) 6th January 2016

The First Thing You See by Grégoire Delacourt, novel set in France. I found the first three pages of The First Thing You See hard going, consisting as they do of a young man’s detailed descriptions of the different...

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