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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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Halloween Reads – Take your peek

  • Submitted: 31st October 2017

There's lots of good books out there to scare you senseless or to chill the hairs on the back of your neck. Here's a selection with some VERY creepy scenes:…

Reading and Travelling to Wiltshire

  • Submitted: 29th October 2017

Books and travel go together, right? The Travelling Reader thinks so too as they've sent us some lovely boxes to explore the literary travel scene even more. We've been to…

BookTrail at the Movies – The Beguiled

  • Submitted: 27th October 2017

Friday is a good day for going to the movies. But readers of this site  know the book is more often than not, better than the film right? Who has…

Book Mountains

  • Submitted: 23rd October 2017

Book Mountains? No no the TBR pile, but book mountains of another kind... There's many who prefer a nice leisurely holiday perhaps walking along a beach or wandering in and…

#BookTrailTravels – Cracking the code of war time fiction

  • Submitted: 18th October 2017

I love a good historical novel and especially ones based on true fact or memoirs, so when I read The Imitation Game, long before it was a film, I was…

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