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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…

Novel set in Milan (Sex and the City (Milanese Style, or, Some Ponderings On Optimal Title Length for a Best-Selling Novel)

Novel set in Milan (Sex and the City (Milanese Style, or, Some Ponderings On Optimal Title Length for a Best-Selling Novel) 11th August 2013

The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy by Catherine McNamara, novel set in Milan. The first thing that caught our eye was the amazing, lengthy title. There are only a handful of authors who dare to give their...

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Book set in Cambridge (a mystery for cat lovers) 8th August 2013

The Beauty of Murder by A K Benedict, book set in Cambridge. In The Beauty of Murder, AK Benedict realizes a perfect mix of mystery, humour and delightfully managed time-travel fantasy. Although, I must say, as a hard-core Doctor Who fan,...

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“Tell me how we came to this” Novel set in PARIS

“Tell me how we came to this” Novel set in PARIS 5th August 2013

The Emperor of Paris by C S Richardson. A novel set in the early 1900s and spans three decades. It is a love story, a chronicle of the lives of three characters that touch each others’ lives, and the...

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Novel set in YORKSHIRE, England (A family on the edge…)

Novel set in YORKSHIRE, England (A family on the edge…) 4th August 2013

The Son-in-Law by Charity Norman, novel set in Yorkshire, England. We very much enjoyed reading Charity Norman’s first book After the Fall which made for a gripping read, and was very evocative of New Zealand. So we were really...

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Novel set in San Francisco and NYC (Bibliophile code-breakers)

Novel set in San Francisco and NYC (Bibliophile code-breakers) 2nd August 2013

Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour bookstore by Robin Sloan, novel set in San Francisco and NYC. The first thing that struck us about Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan is that it has such a bright and upbeat cover, it gets you...

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