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…

Romance novel set in Cornwall (“Cornwall feeds something in the soul…”)

Romance novel set in Cornwall (“Cornwall feeds something in the soul…”) 1st April 2015

A Seaside Affair by Fern Britton, romance novel set in Cornwall. The Pavilions Theatre in fictional Trevay is under threat. The Café au Lait conglomerate has this delapidated building in its sights for a major coffee chain revamp. But...

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Psychological thriller set in London / The Home Counties (“the village-on-the-edge-of-London”)

Psychological thriller set in London / The Home Counties (“the village-on-the-edge-of-London”) 29th March 2015

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, thriller set in London and The Home Counties. A hugely hyped thriller, so what is it that makes it so suspenseful? Rachel is a commuter travelling into Euston, London, from the Northwestern...

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Young Adult novel set in Belgium (the author takes us on “an alternative tour of Belgium”)

Young Adult novel set in Belgium (the author takes us on “an alternative tour of Belgium”) 26th March 2015

Urban Legends by Helen Grant, Young Adult novel set in Belgium.   Urban Legends is the third novel in the Forbidden Spaces Trilogy and once again we meet Veerle, who this time is trying to keep her head down...

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Novel set in Tamil Nadu (“lyrical, stunning and shocking…”)

Novel set in Tamil Nadu (“lyrical, stunning and shocking…”) 24th March 2015

The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy, novel set in Tamil Nadu, India. If it is possible for a book to be too clever for its own good, then this is it. Kandasamy sets about giving us a fictionalised version...

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Sailing travel memoir – world – (Sailing away to Adventure and Happiness)

Sailing travel memoir – world – (Sailing away to Adventure and Happiness) 22nd March 2015

Casting Off by Emma Bamford – a sailing travel memoir around the world. An uplifting autobiography where, following a chance conversation with a newly pregnant friend, Emma Bamford turns her perceived failure to achieve her goals in life – husband,...

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