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…
Not Quite Nice by Celia Imrie, set in the Côte d’Azur, not far from Nice. Bellevue Sur Mer where the Brits of BSM (not to confused with BDSM, of course, though shenanigans amongst this, the older incomers are rife!) have come to...
Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst, novel set in Warsaw. At the French embassy in 1937 Warsaw, the French military attaché Colonel Mercier is trying to deal with the problem of a somewhat feckless agent, Herr Edward Uhl. Soon,...
Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino, memoir set in New York and Italy. Hermit in Paris is a remarkable tour into Italo Calvino’s political and literary life, fresh and unexpected, at times deep and solemn, at times fun and...
The Love Detective by Alexandra Potter, romance novel set in India. Ever since Ruby, aged thirty-something, caught her (now ex) fiancé in flagrante with another woman, life has been in a bit of a rut – staying in watching...
Afternoons In Ithaka by Spiri Tsintziras, memoir set in Greece. From the beautiful cover, to the delicious sounding blurb about it, this book could have been written especially for me. I am a huge fan of Greece – the...
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