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A collection of book reviews, literary travel journeys and best books set in posts

Literary journeys – Look here for books set in a whole range of locations and settings grouped together

BookTrail of the Month – the best book(trail) an author has taken us on

Literary Packages – what are the best books with a strong sense of setting or location for each month?

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Darjeeling Inheritance set in India by Liz Harris

  • Submitted: 11th September 2021

Darjeeling Inheritance by Liz Harris This is a novel that you have to drink tea when you are reading. It’s so immersive of time and place, of the tea plantation in…

A Bloody Scotland like no other

  • Submitted: 10th September 2021

Bloody Scotland  - 2021 a year like no other Stirling is opening its arms to the best of crime fiction writers next weekend with a festival set to be like…

Translated children’s books set in Afghanistan

  • Submitted: 7th September 2021

Books for children set in Afghanistan Afghanistan is a country we often see in the news...but for bad or sad reasons. The view we often get of the country and its…

Daughters of War set in Dordogne By Dinah Jefferies

  • Submitted: 6th September 2021

Daughters of War set in Dordogne If there is any author you want to transport you to Dordogne and a story of family, hardship and war, with a human angle,…

The Edinburgh Book Fair’s new home

  • Submitted: 5th September 2021

The Edinburgh Book Fair has a new home A chance visit to Edinburgh in late August is always a good thing. When you get to visit the new site of…

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The Darkening Globe

1597: Each time the globe turns, murder strikes…

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