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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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Books at the movies

  • Submitted: 11th March 2015

With the release of Suite française this week and the recent release of The Second Best Marigold Hotel recently we took a look back at the books again… War time France….…

Package Deals – Australia Day

  • Submitted: 26th January 2015

As the booktrail mantra is to discover locations and countries via #booktravel then what better on Australia Day than to capture the essence of the country via its fiction? Let’s…

Literary Settings – Jane Eyre’s Yorkshire

  • Submitted: 11th December 2014

We assume you’ve read Jane Eyre before you read this ‘Jane Eyre Trilogy’ as well there are a few mentions of a certain someone who appears in the story but…

Books set in Iceland

  • Submitted: 20th November 2014

There is a phrase in Icelandic, “Ad ganga med bok I maganum” – which literally means ‘everyone has a book in their stomach’, or everyone has a book inside them.…

Chatting books with Leanne Leveaux of The Book Club

  • Submitted: 29th September 2014

Super excited today as we've got that lovely Leanne coming over from The Book Club - she talks books and book related things even more than us booktrailers so we…

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The Frozen People

1850, 2025: Travel back in time to solve a crime!

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