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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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Travel Tuesday, Five Books set in Iceland with snow, ice and crime fiction

  • Submitted: 20th November 2018

Iceland is great if you love crime fiction. There's plenty of books set in Iceland which evoke the landscape in ways you might see or notice unless you take an…

Book set in Florida, Deep Dirty Truth by Steph Broadribb

  • Submitted: 18th November 2018

Deep Dirty Truth by  Steph Broadribb is a thriller set in and around Florida. From Tallahassee to Miami, from the Everglades to the long winding highways of Florida state...it's a…

Iceland Noir competition

  • Submitted: 15th November 2018

For fans of Iceland Noir - we have an Iceland Noir competition! The lovely people at the Crime fiction festival have offered one of their goodie bags in a prize…

Iceland Noir

  • Submitted: 13th November 2018

Where else could The BookTrail take you today than Iceland? It's the week that some of the crime fiction fraternity head over to Iceland in the middle of the Atlantic…

Books set in war zones

  • Submitted: 9th November 2018

There's many books set in war zones and detailing heroic stories of the men and women who fight and/or keep the home fires burning. This weekend as we remember those…

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Just a Little Dinner

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