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…
A Cornish Stranger by Liz Fenwick, novel set in Cornwall. As you gaze out from your window upon the dark, mighty storm raging over the creek, what happens when you see someone clawing their way through churning waters and...
Return to Mandalay by Rosanna Ley, novel set in Burma (and Dorset). A book of well over 500 pages that passes like a dream. Myanmar, formerly Burma, is gorgeously evoked, and in such colourful terms that it had me wanting to...
The House of Dolls – fiction set in Amsterdam. By David Hewson. I quote from David Hewson’s website… ‘The world is a vital component, one I need to establish before anything else. There’s a simple rule I apply to...
The Lying-Down Room by Anna Jaquiery – book set in Paris. Paris in a heat studded August. Everyone is wilting in temperatures above 30 degrees centigrade. As a reader I was absolutely there with the cast of characters,the descriptions...
Cold Hearts by Gunnar Staalesen. A dramatic and black mystery set in Bergen in Norway. Very well written by Gunnar Staalesen – and very well translated by Don Bartlett. Varg Veum, a private detective, is approached by Hege –...
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