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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…

Novella set in Paris (the city of sadness and loneliness)

Novella set in Paris (the city of sadness and loneliness) 8th June 2014

Zenith Hotel by Oscar Coop-Phane, novella set in Paris. This is a short novella that packs a punch. Descriptive, feisty, and full of Parisian flair. We asked two reviewers to share their thoughts with us: Jacqui Brown via The...

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Book set in Mallorca (a fortnight in PigPen*)

Book set in Mallorca (a fortnight in PigPen*) 5th June 2014

The Vacationers by Emma Straub: book set in Mallorca. “Mallorca was a layer cake – the gnarled olive trees and spiky palms, the green-gray mountains, the chalky stone walls along either side of the road, the cloudless pale blue...

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Thriller set in Ghent (author Helen Grant talks about Ghent as a location)

Thriller set in Ghent (author Helen Grant talks about Ghent as a location) 3rd June 2014

Demons of Ghent by Helen Grant, set in Ghent. This excellent thriller set in Ghent follows on from the first book in the trilogy, Silent Saturday (set in Tervuren and Brussels) and Veerle is picking up her life, living...

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A satisfying holiday read. Novel set in Barcelona and Fuerteventura (and West Dorset)

A satisfying holiday read. Novel set in Barcelona and Fuerteventura (and West Dorset) 31st May 2014

Bay of Secrets by Rosanna Ley – novel set in Barcelona, Fuerteventura and West Dorset This novel has all the key ingredients to make for a really satisfying holiday read – skilful plotting, great characterisation and a believable romance. What takes...

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On the road with the Mariotti family (how to do Europe with children, books and flair!)

On the road with the Mariotti family (how to do Europe with children, books and flair!) 28th May 2014

The connections we at TripFiction have forged via social media to date have been really wonderful and that is how we met up with the Mariotti family from Washington. In this post we share some insights into the inspirational...

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