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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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Books set in distant lands – BookTrail Guide to 2017

  • Submitted: 30th December 2016

There are some crackers out in 2017- 2016 might have been good but the books due out in the new year are quite amazing. Yesterday the Booktrail presented some staycations -…

Books to look forward to in 2017 – BookTrail Staycations

  • Submitted: 29th December 2016

Looking forward to your next read is always exciting but after 2016 (the real world not the literary one) the landscape does look a bit bleak. Happily though, it's not the…

The BookTrail Guide to Edinburgh Christmas market

  • Submitted: 28th December 2016

The Booktrail visited Edinburgh market over the Christmas period as since the article about How would  your favourite literary characters spend Christmas appeared on Visit Britain - we began to wonder…

Book Memories 2016

  • Submitted: 23rd December 2016

Well 2016 has been quite the year for books! Book memories have been numerous and so I just had to mention a few here. There's a top ten of books…

The Marnie Map of Murder….

  • Submitted: 22nd December 2016

Marnie Riches talks location, location, location. So in honour of this day, let's have a Marnie map of locations: Back in July 2015, when my debut George McKenzie novel, The…

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Estella’s Fury

1835: Great Expectations meets Killing Eve

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