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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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Truly, Darkly, Deeply set in London

  • Submitted: 6th September 2022

Truly, Darkly, Deeply set in London You move to London from Massachusetts with your mum. She meets someone and for a while, everything seems very nice. However....things suddenly get very…

Blackstone Fell set in Yorkshire – Martin Edwards

  • Submitted: 5th September 2022

Yorkshire historical fiction 1930. Nell Fagan is a journalist on the trail of a bizarre mystery: in 1606, a man vanished from a locked gatehouse in a remote Yorkshire village, and…

Best booktrail of the Month for August 2022

  • Submitted: 2nd September 2022

Best booktrail of the Month for August 2022 The best booktrail of the month for me for August was a book that came out of nowhere and really took me…

Dutch fiction set on Bird Island

  • Submitted: 1st September 2022

Vogeleiland A book in Dutch. One of the first I have read all the way through in a long while. My Dutch (picked up when living in Belgium) is a…

The Invisible set in Greece, Macedonia and Albania

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Crime fiction set in three countries When a man goes missing in a region where three countries intersect - it's not going to be easy to find him... Detective Sergeant…

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