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…
The Art of Killing Well by Marco Malvaldi (translated by Howard Curtis) – a mystery set in Tuscany. Pellegrino Artusi was the real life writer of the first Italian cook book. At the end of the 19th century he...
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy – novel set in Alpes-Maritimes (and Nice). Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012, this is a short novel set in the Alpes-Maritimes. A family story set in 1994 in a villa with a pool....
Outlaws by Javier Cercas (translated by Anne McLean). A novel set in Gerona. It is the 1970s – Franco has recently died, and everything in Spain is changing. Gerona is not an especially attractive place. Yes, there are leafy...
Carnal Acts by Sam Alexander: thriller set in Northumberland. The Northumberland Tourist Board will not, I stress will not, be promoting this novel! The book is like walking into Dante’s Inferno, there is rape and pillage (not by the Border Reivers...
The Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P S Duffy: a WW1 Novel set in Nova Scotia and France. P S Duffy is a real discovery. This is her first novel, but it reads as if she has had...
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