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…
One Summer in Venice by Nicky Pellegrino, novel set in Venice. A thoughtful book that utterly transported me to Venice. Addolorata – Dolly to her friends – is married to Eden in London, and has a teenage daughter, Katia....
The prize in our competition this month is the book and DVD set of The Kite Runner (book by Khaled Hosseini, film starring Ebrahami Zekeria and Khalid Abdalla), plus the book and DVD set of Girl With A Pearl Earring...
House of Ashes by Monique Roffey, novel set in the Caribbean. Loosely based on the attempted coup d’état in Trinidad in 1990, the action in this fast moving story takes place on a fictitious island in the Caribbean. However,...
Dark Tides by Chris Ewan, thriller set in the Isle of Man. Hop-tu-naa (pronounced hop-two-nay) is a Celtic festival on 31st October, celebrated in the Isle of Man and pre-dates Halloween. It is also the original celebration of New...
Children of the Jacaranda Tree, novel set in Iran by Sahar Delijani (plus author Sahar shares a few words with us about life in Iran). More a collection of essays, this novel introduces the reader to the harsh reality of...
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