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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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Clocks and Books

  • Submitted: 26th October 2018

The clocks go back this weekend so that means an extra hour in bed....reading.... A book where time is off the essence and where clocks appear in the story or…

The Peirene Translation Prize

  • Submitted: 24th October 2018

There's a new Award on the bloc, and it's one The BookTrail is very excited about - It's the Peirene Stevns Award for Translators. NEW Translators who wish to enter…

Written in Blood – Simon Toyne’s guide to the TV show

  • Submitted: 22nd October 2018

There's a fascinating TV show on CBS reality at the moment where best selling author Simon Toyne presents a programme all about crime writers and their novels.How these writers are…

Have you BOOKed your weekend?

  • Submitted: 19th October 2018

Friday and the weekend are the best days for reading. You can totally fall into a book and go wherever you want to go, from the comfort of your arm…

The Story of a Bookseller

  • Submitted: 17th October 2018

There’s lots of independent bookstores up and down the UK which make it their daily duty to ensure that books find good homes with the right reader. Books live there…

Featured Book

Nephthys

1891: Sister. Rival. Protector. The spellbinding story of a forgotten daughter and a forgotten goddess.

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