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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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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…

BookTrail at the Movies

  • Submitted: 22nd April 2018

Tonight sees the adaptation of Wilkie Collins novel The Woman in White on BBC1. How will the Tv programme compare to the book? Well,it's a great story however it's told…

#FrenchBookFriday – Books with French threads…

  • Submitted: 20th April 2018

Something a bit different this week - not books necessarily set in France but books with a French twist.... Or French threads in novels.....books with French subplots, scenes in France…

The story behind the story…

  • Submitted: 18th April 2018

Books contain stories of course they do - but what happens when that book and story contain a story in themselves? There’s many a book with a hidden or deeper…

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The Darkening Globe

1597: Each time the globe turns, murder strikes…

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