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#TalkingLocationWith ... GB Rubin, author of Murder at Christmas: You Solve The Crime (and indeed, you as the reader play the part of Dr Kinn Tenor)

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"The book is written as a gift for anyone who loves 1930s-set mysteries.."
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Talking Location with G B Rubin - YORK - TripFiction

TalkingLocationWith G B Rubin, author of Murder at Christmas: You Solve The Crime, where you - the reader - play the part of Dr Kinn Tenor, searching for

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December 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM

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"I always hope the landscape will live as much as any character in my work. And what better character could I ask for than #Anatolia..."

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#TalkingLocationWith D J Green, author of No More Empty Spaces

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#TalkingLocationWith... D J Green, author of No More Empty Spaces — ANATOLIA I stood atop a cliff. Dark clouds loomed in the distance, but the sun shone

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March 21, 2024 at 8:30 AM

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#TalkingLocationWith ... @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social

Author of Secrets of the Bees set in CORNWALL

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"..a novel about the coming together of old Cornwall.."

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Talking Location With ... Jane Johnson: CORNWALL - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith ... Jane Johnson, author of Secrets of the Bees set in CORNWALL SECRETS OF THE BEES is set in one of the hidden bits of West

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October 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM

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#TalkingLocationWith ... @kathryngauci.bsky.social, author of An Aegean Odyssey: A Memoir, with stops in Athens, Chios, Crete, Karpathos, Lesbos, and Rhodes

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Featuring #chios 'The Resin Isle' GREECE

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Talking Location with Kathryn Gauci: CHIOS - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith... Kathryn Gauci, author of Aegean Odyssey: A Memoir, set on Chios in the Greek Islands My 15th book, An Aegean Odyssey: A Memoir, is

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October 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM

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A Polar Paradox

#TalkingLocationWith.... Cynthia Reeves, author of The Last Whaler

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#norway #svalbard
"There was no denying the visible impacts of Arctic warming.."

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TalkingLocationWith... Cynthia Reeves. A Polar Paradox: Witnessing the Sublime as a Destructive Force by Cynthia Reeves, author of The Last Whaler Over

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October 8, 2024 at 7:26 AM

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#TalkingLocationWith ... @taniamalik.bsky.social

#DUBAI

#HopeYouAreSatisfied

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"..For writers, visiting the actual setting of our novel can provide a profound sense of place.."

Talking Location With Tania Malik - DUBAI, evolution of a city - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith... Tania Malik: Dubai and the Evolution of a City How does one write about a city that exists and does not exist at the same time?

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February 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM

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#TalkingLocationWith .... Jody Cooksley

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It's all about #charmouth, a setting featured in her novel: The Small Museum

#dorset

Talking Location With .... author Jody Cooksley - CHARMOUTH - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith.... Jody Cooksley, author of The Small Museum The key chapters in Jody Cooksley’s chilling Gothic thriller, The Small Museum, take

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May 7, 2024 at 8:24 AM

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NORTHUMBERLAND

#TalkingLocationWith... @suereedwrites.bsky.social

Author of The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn

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Blending the period of Lockdown 2020 with events back in the 1650s - "the burning times"

October 21, 2023 at 7:48 AM

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#TalkingLocationWith... Sophie Morton-Thomas

Author of Bird Spotting in a Small Town

"..a chilling literary thriller in the vein of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.."

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#NORFOLK

Talking Location With ... Sophie Morton-Thomas - NORFOLK - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith ... Sophie Morton-Thomas, author of Bird Spotting in a Small Town - NORFOLK. The story of Bird Spotting in a Small Town came about as

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March 18, 2024 at 9:01 AM

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Discover #Cronulla in New South Wales

#TalkingLocationWith ... Vanessa Lee, author of High Rise

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"..a playground for surfers, bodyboarders, swimmers, or anyone who simply wants to enjoy the wide open natural spaces and amazing cafes.."

Talking Location With Author Vanessa Lee - CRONULLA (NSW) - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith…. Vanessa Lee, author of High Rise – CRONULLA, SYDNEY All of the action of my debut novel High Rise plays out in a fictionalised

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March 26, 2024 at 9:19 AM

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#PARIS
#TalkingLocationWith .... Pascale Petit

Author of My Hummingbird Father

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In this novel "..artist Dominique returns to her birth city, Paris, to meet her estranged father, and falls in love with the city she once hated.."

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#TalkingLocationWith… Pascale Petit, author of My Hummingbird Father – Paris Let me tell you how I fell in love with my birth city when I was forty, and

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September 23, 2024 at 7:30 AM

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#TalkingLocationWith ... Emily Freud

#Thailand

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Author of 'Her Last Summer'

"In any story, it’s important to take the readers on a journey with the characters...."

Talking Location With ... Emily Freud - THAILAND - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith... Emily Freud, author of HER LAST SUMMER set in Thailand. In my new book, Her Last Summer, there are two trips taken to Thailand.

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April 20, 2024 at 7:18 AM

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#TalkingLocationWith .. Rob Starr

Author of The First Widow (out today)

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#Brighton is "such an inspirational place to live that all you have to do is walk around ... and you will find that you can’t help but want to write about it"

Talking Location With author Rob Starr - BRIGHTON - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith .... Rob Starr, author of The First Widow - BRIGHTON The First Widow is my second novel that has its base in Brighton. My first

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August 29, 2024 at 8:15 AM

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A heads up, coming 28 February 25

#TalkingLocationWith.. Deborah Lawrenson, author of The Secretary - #MOSCOW #SUKHUMI

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"..She caught her first sight of Red Square, vast and empty, through a murky mist. St Basil’s cathedral was a twisted-sugar confection.."

Talking Location With ... Deborah Lawrenson: MOSCOW and SUKHUMI - TripFiction

TalkingLocationWith ... Deborah Lawrenson, author of The Secretary Set in Moscow and Sukhumi, a resort on the Black Sea; USSR “As the dawn lightened from

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February 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM

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#ThrowbackTuesday

#TalkingLocationWith .... @heidiamsinckwriter.bsky.social

#copenhagen

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and short stories set in #Denmark : Last Train to Helsingør

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Nordic Noir: short stories set in Denmark, and chatting to the author about Copenhagen - TripFiction

Last Train to Helsingør by Heidi Amsinck, short stories set in Denmark. Review Last Train to Helsingør is the eponymous title of the first story in this

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December 17, 2024 at 12:19 PM

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Isolation Ward
Out 17 April 2025

#TalkingLocationWith .. @martinebailey.bsky.social

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"it is the Yorkshire of the lonely wind ruffling the high tops, and the lonely millstone grit farmsteads, that drew me to write about one of Britain’s most evocative regions."

Talking Location With Martine Bailey - YORKSHIRE - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith… Martine Bailey, author of Isolation Ward, set in YORKSHIRE I knew right from the beginning that the setting for my latest book,

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April 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM

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#TalkingLocationWith .... Michael Cordy - author of MANHATTAN DOWN

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"Almost every location in Manhattan Down is a place I have visited or stood outside..."

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Talking Location With Michael Cordy: MANHATTAN - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith ... Michael Cordy author of Manhattan Down. I’m British but was born abroad and spent much of my childhood in Africa, India and

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May 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM

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SCOTLAND
#TalkingLocationWith ... N S Brooks
Author of "Fraud"

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"Scotland provides a fantastic backdrop for any thriller writer...."

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#TalkingLocationWith... N S Brooks, author of Fraud - SCOTLAND. The story starts in the West Highlands of Scotland in my first novel – Betrayed - and uses

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February 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM

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BOLOGNA

#TalkingLocationWith .. @tombenjamin.bsky.social
Author of The Bologna Vendetta

Change came so rapidly to Tom Benjamin’s city he recorded it in his hit mystery series

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This is no.6 in the Daniel Leicester series
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Talking Location With ... Tom Benjamin: BOLOGNA - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith... Tom Benjamin, author of The Bologna Vendetta: BOLOGNA BOLOGNA BITES BACK Change came so rapidly to Tom Benjamin’s city he recorded

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July 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM

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#TalkingLocationWith .... Helen Whitten

It's all about #MOSCOW, the setting for her novel "No Lemons In Moscow"

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"Russia is a fascinating place and I really hope that there is peace soon, a new regime, and that you will be able to visit it as I did.."

Talking Location With Helen Whitten - MOSCOW - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith.... Helen Whitten, author of No Lemons in Moscow - MOSCOW It was autumn 1990, the Gorbachev era in Russia, when we landed in Moscow

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May 27, 2024 at 11:55 AM

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We're on the map! #TalkingLocationWith... @tripfiction.bsky.social

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NORTHUMBERLAND

#TalkingLocationWith... @suereedwrites.bsky.social

Author of The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn

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Blending the period of Lockdown 2020 with events back in the 1650s - "the burning times"

October 21, 2023 at 10:11 AM

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#TalkingLocationWith ... author Karen Swan

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ST KILDA - "She feels ancient and completely set apart from the rest of the world.."

The setting for The Lost Lover

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Talking Location With ... Karen Swan: ST KILDA, OUTER HEBRIDES - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith ... Karen Swan, author of The Lost Lover (The Wild Isle series) - ST KILDA, OUTER HEBRIDES St Kilda is no ordinary island. Hopping in

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January 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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#TalkingLocationWith ... Annabel Kantaria

#Oman, the main setting for YOU LIED FIRST

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"The big draw for me on this visit was the desert.."

Including #toptips for a visit

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