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Check through the Blog posts below to find our latest extended book reviews, our #AuthorsOnLocation 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…
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10 top books set in New York
20th September 2014
These are our current 10 top books set in New York – as rated by...
Two novels set in South East Asia, 1940s Java and 1950s Malaya
17th September 2014
These two novels by Isabel Wolff and Dinah Jeffries are both set in South...
A novella set in South Africa (“Africa Time”)
15th September 2014
Alarm Girl by Hannah Vincent, novella set in South Africa. Once in a while...
A Fictionalised biography (the colour of India beautifully evoked)
11th September 2014
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut – novel set in India and Alexandria. Arctic Summer,...
See You Tomorrow – fiction set in Stavanger (definitely Scandinavian noir)
8th September 2014
See You Tomorrow by Tore Renberg. Translated by Séan Kinsella – fiction set in...
Memoir set in Biarritz (a town with a ‘surf-oriented ley line’). Plus Q&A with a seasoned surfer
3rd September 2014
Surf Mama by Wilma Johnson, memoir set in Biarritz. Wilma Johnson is living on...
Novel set in California (crime from a “brilliant storyteller”)
1st September 2014
Unlucky 13 by James Patterson, novel set in California. James Patterson has done it...
Novel set in Edinburgh (“love paints the world”)
28th August 2014
The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith. No. 3 in The Sunday Philosphy...
Terminal City by Linda Fairstein – a thriller set in New York (beneath Grand Central Station)
24th August 2014
Terminal City by Linda Fairstein – a thriller set in New York. Terminal City...
Novel set in HAMBURG, Germany (“the percussive music of the German language”)
20th August 2014
The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook, novel set in Hamburg 1946. A novel that evokes...
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