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…
Melting the Snow on Hester Street by Daisy Waugh, novel set in New York and Hollywood. The book absolutely brings the era of early 20th Century America to life, the era of the Great Gatsby and the polarisation of...
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, novel set in Paris We are so pleased that author Charles Lambert agreed to write a guest post for Tripfiction. Beryl Bainbridge refers to him as a seriously good writer…and we were thrilled...
Secrecy by Rupert Thomson, novel set in Florence. We were intrigued from the moment we saw this book, as it has a voluptuous and stunning cover, a beautifully composed pregnant woman, veiled in dark crimson damask. The book’s spine is gold....
The Gilded Fan by Christina Courtenay, fiction set in Nagasaki, Amsterdam and Plymouth. This delightful story opens in Japan in the early 1640s where the Emperor is purging anyone of mixed race. Midori, daughter of a daimyō, whose mother,...
The Ringtone and the Drum by Mark Weston. Travelogue set in West Africa. “West Africa is nobody’s idea of a dream holiday destination” – so opens The Ringtone and the Drum by Mark Weston; Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso and...
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