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Translated fiction set in Buenos Aires

  • Submitted: 12th February 2025

The Best Enemy - Sergio Olguin The former editor of Nuestro Tiempo magazine has been murdered, apparently during the course of a burglary gone wrong, but investigative reporter Verónica Rosenthal…

Map Monday – The House Keepers

  • Submitted: 10th February 2025

Map Monday Maps are everything. Of course that is something you're going to read here on The BookTrail. What is also very exciting however are floor plans. Books with maps…

Do you buy the same book in multiple formats?

  • Submitted: 9th February 2025

Buying the same book again and again. Do you buy the same book in different editions? Whether that be in a different format, language or US/UK edition, there's something very…

Haunting story set in Scotland

  • Submitted: 7th February 2025

Haunting story set in Scotland Off to a Scottish island with a fisherman it would seem.  Winter, 1900. A little boy washes up on the beach of a small fishing village…

Thriller set in the Basque mines

  • Submitted: 5th February 2025

Alma Negra Ibon Martin A Spanish thriller not long out in Spain but I have been hearing SUCH good things about this that I had to read it. I've never…

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