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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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BookTrail Oscars announced!

  • Submitted: 13th March 2023

The BookTrail Oscars are here! A very excited time in BookWorld. We have the nominees and winners of The BookTrail Oscars. So many books flapping their pages in the wings,…

BookTrail Oscars

  • Submitted: 12th March 2023

Books deserve Oscars too It's that time of year again and the red carpet is already laid own. The books have been polished and their pages pampered to within an…

A Jew Must Die set in Switzerland – Jacques Chessex

  • Submitted: 9th March 2023

A Jew Must Die  - Jacques Chessex April 1942  - the war is raging but even in rural Switzerland the effects are going to be felt and much more keenly…

The Sun Walks Down set in Australia – Fiona McFarlane

  • Submitted: 6th March 2023

The  Sun Walks Down- Fiona McFarlane This novel transports you to the the Willochra Plain in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. Here is land covered with sheep farms. cattle stations…

Memoir set in Vancouver – Angela Sterritt

  • Submitted: 3rd March 2023

Unbroken in BC - Angela Sterritt Unbroken is a remarkable  book. It's about the untold or unheard story of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The author herself is Gitxsan who…

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A Granite Silence

1934: A notorious true crime case

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