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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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A novel way to travel: Books set in the desert

  • Submitted: 8th April 2016

A novel way to travel - Books set in the desert The desert is usually a dry arid place, no water, miles to journey before your next village....but full of…

A novel way to travel – Novels set in London –

  • Submitted: 4th April 2016

London is the setting of many a great novel - it is the dank streets, the cobbled alley ways and the debtors prisons which populated Charles Dickens’s world. It’s the…

Books set in fictional places

  • Submitted: 31st March 2016

Books set in fictional places we wish were real I was looking in the window of a travel agent the other day and thinking if I could go anywhere in…

Post Easter Blues? Feast your Eyes instead

  • Submitted: 29th March 2016

Easter is over and the Easter bunny has hopped over to pastures new. Just before he goes though, he thought you might like two books he's read and loved over…

Books set in a bookshop

  • Submitted: 21st March 2016

Bookshops - those gorgeous places of dreams, literary locations and adventures. Where you can sit and dream for hours, wander the isles and meet your next favourite reads. Whether you…

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Nephthys

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

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