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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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Newcastle Noir Roundup

  • Submitted: 8th May 2018

Newcastle Noir is over for another year. What a weekend that was! There's no words that can describe what a fun and criminally good time was had by all. So…

Sunday Funday at Newcastle Noir

  • Submitted: 4th May 2018

This weekend sees a bunch of criminally good writers heading up to Newcastle to talk crime fiction. TAking place in the very nice library that is the Lit and Phil,…

A Guide to Newcastle Noir

  • Submitted: 30th April 2018

This week and weekend sees a series of criminally good bookish events happening in Newcastle  -Newcastle Noir is the North East's crime-fiction festival which brings authors from across the country,…

Dear Mrs Bird…wisdom in novels

  • Submitted: 25th April 2018

Dear Mrs Bird, This is what I have learned from your heartwarming novel BookTrail Dear Mrs Bird    Live for the moment... “I told myself we could all get blown up…

#TravelTuesday – Books set in …cemeteries, churches and graves

  • Submitted: 24th April 2018

Churches and graveyards provide a very chilling setting to many novels. Iconic scenes are often set there  - who can forget the marriage scene in Jane Eyre? - but graveyards…

Featured Book

Nephthys

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

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