A Guide to Newcastle Noir
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,…
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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?
Welcome to the literary departure lounge !
Dear Mrs Bird…wisdom in novels
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
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
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…
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…
