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…

Thriller set in Russia (“Confiscation and Requisition” in Revolutionary RUSSIA) plus author Q and A

Thriller set in Russia (“Confiscation and Requisition” in Revolutionary RUSSIA) plus author Q and A 5th September 2013

Red Winter by Dan Smith, thriller set in Russia. 1920, central Russia. It is bleak, cold, dark, it is densely forested and there is a murderer roaming freely, executing locals and branding them with a red star. It is...

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Novel set in Oklahoma, USA (“The Wind comes right behind the rain”)

Novel set in Oklahoma, USA (“The Wind comes right behind the rain”) 3rd September 2013

Kind of Kin by Rilla Askew, novel set in Oklahoma. The text of House Bill 1804 or, to give it its proper name, the ‘Oklahoma Taxpayers and Citizens Protection Act of 2007’ might come as a bit or a...

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Novel set in Germany (Snow White in the Orangerie with the tire iron*)

Novel set in Germany (Snow White in the Orangerie with the tire iron*) 2nd September 2013

Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus translated by Steven T Murray, novel set in Germany (Taunus/Frankfurt) The title is inspired, and the cover striking: it invites strangers to come up and enquire what the book might be about...

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Novel set in Almeria and Andalusia (A Guiri* and more in SPAIN)

Novel set in Almeria and Andalusia (A Guiri* and more in SPAIN) 30th August 2013

Mr Lynch’s Holiday by Catherine O’Flynn, novel set in Almeria and Andalusia A charming novel that transports the reader to the Almeria/Andalusia region of Spain. To the urbanisation of Lomaverde, to be precise, where a mix of expats has bought property...

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Novel set in Los Angeles (a sumptuous quality of writing)

Novel set in Los Angeles (a sumptuous quality of writing) 16th August 2013

The Pink Hotel by Anna Stothard, novel set in Los Angeles and Venice Beach (LA). “Stylish…captures an outsider’s gape at sun-drenched Los Angeles” The New York Times   Lily Harris has died in Venice Beach and her estranged 17 year old daughter...

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