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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…

Thriller set in Siglufjörður, Iceland (…where the winter is relentless…)

Thriller set in Siglufjörður, Iceland (…where the winter is relentless…) 18th July 2015

Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson (translated by Quentin Blake), thriller set in Siglufjörður, Iceland. Snowblind is a quite excellent thriller. Ragnar Jónasson describes beautifully the bleakness, cold, and snow of Siglufjörður – Iceland’s northernmost city on the edge of the...

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Tell us the one thing you’d like to do, visit, or see in Japan – and win this great prize!

Tell us the one thing you’d like to do, visit, or see in Japan – and win this great prize! 17th July 2015

Japan is one of the jewels of Asia, and one of our absolute favourite countries in the world. We are therefore extremely pleased to offer this fabulous Japan themed prize in our competition this month. There are two great books...

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Novel set in Florence (Filippo Lippi: “the master of presence”)

Novel set in Florence (Filippo Lippi: “the master of presence”) 15th July 2015

The Painter of Souls by Philip Kazan, novel set in Florence. A novel for lovers of art. The author takes the reader right back to the early years of 15th Century Florence, when the city and Europe were on...

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Novel set in Kuwait and The Philippines (“..epic in its breadth and story..”)

Novel set in Kuwait and The Philippines (“..epic in its breadth and story..”) 13th July 2015

The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi, set in Kuwait and The Philippines. Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2013 This is an incredible story of migration and rootlessness and what it means “to belong”. It is epic...

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Travelogue set in Morocco (“It’s not a real souk unless it sells men’s underwear”)

Travelogue set in Morocco (“It’s not a real souk unless it sells men’s underwear”) 11th July 2015

Marrakech Express by Peter Millar, travelogue set in Morocco. “Nothing in the world is quite like Morocco. Research for Marrakech Express took a year and covered everywhere from the Algerian border to magical Fez, cosmopolitan Rabat and crazy Casablanca,...

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