tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82055408100304766082024-03-13T00:50:38.121+00:00TripFictionThe Blog where you can find fiction that is set in locations around the globe and see your chosen destination through the eyes of an author.TripFiction Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12209040237856010602noreply@blogger.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205540810030476608.post-64481958496341711922014-03-20T13:40:00.001+00:002014-05-30T11:09:47.894+01:00Come and visit the new TRIPFICTION site (click on the links below to find out more)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fabulous news. Our new <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/" target="_blank">TripFiction</a> website is now live. That means that all our blogposts will be moving from here to there, as our blogs are now incorporated into the new site. New posts will appear regularly there too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come and make <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/" target="_blank">TripFiction</a> your site and help build it into a really valuable resource for both armchair and actual travellers. Explore the world through fiction. Join the discussions, suggest books if we don't already feature them and write reviews - this way you can really help authors get their work out there, and help grow the breadth of the site. And with more reviews we can bring to you the top 10 best reads in any given location; or via our <span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>book butler</u></span> we can help you choose books that suit your taste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>TripFiction Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12209040237856010602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205540810030476608.post-80679670646276018662014-03-08T13:42:00.000+00:002014-03-10T17:05:27.727+00:00The Scents of Adventure in the MALDIVES<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kuoni UK are currently running a competition which you, too, can enter <a href="http://www.kuoni.co.uk/soacompetition?Affiliate=aw&awc=3353_1394189382_3613894178bcb36c18d308d870b6670a" target="_blank">here</a>. They are asking of you what your signature scent of the Maldives might be. In their Bluewater shop they have mapped out the aromas of other fabulous locations, which they are show casing there on a map: <i>coffee</i> for Brazil, and <i>apple pie </i>for the USA. And the prize? You guessed it - 7 nights in the 5* Maafushivaru Resort, including return flights. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Get yourselves over to the <a href="http://www.kuoni.co.uk/maldives" target="_blank">Kuoni/Maldives website</a> to find out more about their great holidays (that's a good plug for them, I think!)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thinking back to a brief visit we made to one of the islands in the late 1990s - the aroma that remained with us until this day, is the heady scent of sun-ripened fruit: sweet, intoxicating and enticing. The beautiful variety of colours adds to the full, multi-sensory experience - the rich orange of the mangoes, the green/yellow hues of the pineapples and the wonderfully contrasting flesh of the papaya, with its black seeds in the middle. Lush deliciousness for all the senses.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/books/beach-babylon/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBS1stAvWFu0orOnmfpLrJxdTFNkR_iWh8FV01L7Iqcpcq7zIb4hEjb8aunSt61uKnNJ8Ozsxis8Qftlm79ZtzBE1LhX4pHxKYlwABV_XBFPTrqMcPya_z56JznhSR6tg8t1atPAqgZ4M/s1600/0552154636.01.ZTZZZZZZ.jpg" height="200" width="128" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And of course we can't write a post without sugesting a couple of novels to take, to complete the full sensory experience. Through prose, experience the SMELLS, the heat, the feel of the islands, the clunk of the coconut as it thuds on the beach and savour the sand between your toes, long before you board to your plane to Male... see The Maldives through an author's eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First up is <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/books/beach-babylon/" target="_blank">Beach Babylon</a> by Imogen Edwards-Jones. How does it feel to live and work in the world's most beautiful and luxurious tropical island resort, surrounded by white sandy beaches and aquamarine seas? Well, you can find out by reading this novel!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And second is <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/books/on-the-island/" target="_blank">On the Island</a> by Tracey Garvis Graves. When 30 year old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a summer job tutoring T J Callahan at his family's holiday in home in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation. But on the way to their destination the plane crashes, leaving Anna and TJ to face their Robinson Crusoe challenge. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>And of course if you know of further books set in The Maldives, drop by <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/" target="_blank">TripFiction website</a> and add them. Help us build this into a really great resource for both armchair and actual travellers.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>TripFiction Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12209040237856010602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205540810030476608.post-50154770739876251532014-03-06T21:06:00.001+00:002014-03-16T18:28:11.170+00:00Novel set in CUBA and DUBLIN (one kiss is indeed all it takes)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>This post is now on our new website, click <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/book-set-cuba-dublin-one-kiss-indeed-takes/" target="_blank">here</a></b></span>TripFiction Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12209040237856010602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205540810030476608.post-17078281688548195902014-03-02T10:33:00.000+00:002014-04-14T12:34:55.453+01:00Novel set in the Australian Outback (Feel the love) ......calling ANDREA GEROLDI<div class="MsoNormal">
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TripFiction Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12209040237856010602noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205540810030476608.post-6894403439381168272014-02-26T20:44:00.000+00:002014-02-26T20:53:06.339+00:00Novel set in Gibraltar and Morocco (sleuthing in Europe)<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Spike Sanguinetti can happily find his place alongside other
European sleuths, and probably (we believe) is the first to be based on the Rock
of Gibraltar. But he isn’t a detective, he is a tax lawyer who is a compelling
character on a mission to defend his friend of many years, Solomon Hassan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Solomon stands accused of murder of a young woman, across the water
in Tangiers and Sanguinetti travels there to try and delay Solomon’s
extradition to stand trial – he is Jewish and fears incarceration in North
Africa.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Tangiers is very different to the Rock, that “magical island for the
idle English’ as Mogford describes it at one point, (and amazingly is
apparently only the size of Hyde Park – the things you learn!). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">From Gibraltar dive right into the melee, then, that is Morocco. The pace is generally
languorous so that the reader is given time to assimilate the landscape, as
Sanguinetti ploughs back and forth between contacts and suspects and gradually
begins to explore the links that feed back to a big multinational specializing
in solar energy. He soon hooks up with Zahra, a young Bedouin woman, who is
looking into the disappearance of her Father, who owned the land where the
multinational concern is building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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land masses, separated by the stretch of water, known as the Gut (so-called
because of the dangerous cross currents feeding in and out of the
Mediterranean). The Rock feels sedate and British, with names like Tank Ramp,
Bedlam Court, Devil’s Tower, yet preserves its own patois, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">yanito</i>, comprising Spanish, Genoese,
English and Hebrew (there, yet another interesting snippet of life on the Rock
gleaned from the novel!); Tangiers feels very different, hot, bustling and so
very chaotic.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">For Bordeaux we suggest Allan Massie's <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/Book/2450" target="_blank">Death in Bordeaux</a> set during the time of the Vichy Government during WWII.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">For Florence Michele Giuttari is perfect, and we suggest <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/Book/492" target="_blank">A Florentine Death</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Venice is unquestionably the territory of author Donna Leon who has written the hugely popular series of sleuthing novels with Guido Brunetti as the hero <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/Book/140" target="_blank">About Face</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sicily is brought to life by author Andrea Camilleri through his hero Inspector Montalbano, many to choose from - perhaps <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/Book/1626" target="_blank">August Heat</a></span></div>
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TripFiction Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12209040237856010602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205540810030476608.post-55807783732385678392014-02-24T08:55:00.001+00:002014-02-24T08:55:52.193+00:00Novel set in London (and a bit about book sales)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a sobering thought that a lot of authors actually sell only a limited number of books, and as I read The Marrying of Chani Kaufman - long listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2013 - I reflected on the situation. At <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/" target="_blank">TripFiction</a> we come across a phenomenal number of books that have massive merit in their own right, are beautifully written, tick so many boxes, yet just never make it to prime position in a bookshop. Talent and a bit of luck just don't seem to be enough these days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">India Knight in an article entitled <em>Ambushed in the Old Sentimentality Shop</em> in the Sunday Times of 11.11.12 was in part discussing the Booker Prize of October 2012. It emerged, she says, that sales figures for the shortlisted books, before the announcement of their inclusion on the list, were pitiful: Alison Moore's The Lighthouse, for example, had sold 283 copies, Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis 100 and Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists had had 174 buyers. Naturally sales went up after the shortlist was announced. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her sentiments were further echoed by <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ian Rankin on Twitter 14.7.13, where he opined that a debut novelist, garnering good quotes from famed authors for the cover, plus good reviews, can still expect to sell only a few hundred copies. He was specifically referring to Robert Galbraith (who we now know to be J K Rowling). </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Sunday Telegraph on 10.7.13 said that until the real author was revealed, that Galbraith had only sold 449 copies, according to Neilson Bookscan. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are we to make of this? Sales, whether in a bookshop or via the internet are how an author makes his/her living (just see author, Dan Smith's, recent piece entitled <a href="http://dansmithsbooks.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/a-victimless-crime-right/" target="_blank">A Victimless Crime</a>) so buy books. Another</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> thing we can all do, as readers, is to write reviews, because reviews help garner new readers and new sales. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are plenty of places you can write your reviews - Goodreads, Amazon and of course here at TripFiction. And often processing thoughts and channelling them into a review is quite an </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">interesting and rewarding exercise. Give it a go, you, too, can help authors get their works out there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A tender, and at times frank peak behind the Scheitel (wig) culture of the Ultra-Orthodox community in the Golders Green/Hendon area of London.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a brave thing that a non-Haredi chooses to write about a culture that keeps its doors firmly closed to the outside world of modern Western culture. But I think the author has really achieved a good balance of insight, empathy and reality (as far as one can tell, of course), and for this she was rewarded by being included on the Man Booker Longlist of 2013. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chani, in her late teens, is waiting to be approached by the shadchan (the matchmaker) with a proposition from a potential husband, just to meet and spend a little time together. Her suitor is Baruch who espied her at a wild wedding celebration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The story line is interwoven with the stories of others, all of whom have a connection to the couple, and through their eyes we glimpse a little of what life can be like in the Orthodox community. Like any of us, the individuals are trying to find their way through life, deflecting the bad, and embracing the good. There are a huge amount of strictures to observe in everyday life for those who aspire to be <i>frum</i> (religious/observant) - from food preparation, to interaction between the sexes, attire, you name it. There seems to be an overriding sense of monochrome 'colouring' their lives, a touch lacklustre, and a depressing lack of information when it comes to sex (so it was interesting to see such a brightly coloured cover on this book). But who are any of us to judge a choice of lifestyle, one which clearly becomes deeply ingrained in each new baby that arrives, and is clearly based on a very strong sense of community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And if you enjoyed this move, then we suggest Reva Mann's book <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/Book/443" target="_blank">The Rabbi's Daughter</a> which will offer further insight.</span><br />
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was first published in Swedish in 2001, but the English translation (and an
absolutely excellent one at that…) did not appear until last year. Indeed I
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would seem a bit of an error to me. Nesser is every bit as accomplished a
writer as either a Stieg Larsen or a Jo Nesbø. I am sure he deserves, and will
get, their fame in due course. I truly hope so – if all his books are as
accomplished as <i>The Strangler’s Honeymoon </i>(and I am told they are). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Van
Veeteren is a somewhat grumpy 60+ retired detective who has bought an
antiquarian bookshop to fill his twilight years with a hobby he loves. But he
is never far from the force he used to work for – and the current crop of
detectives still call him Chief Inspector and seek his wise intuition in
solving crimes. And ‘intuition’ is the key word… Van Veeteren works with a
combination of the evidence placed in front of him plus his instincts. He is
drawn into The Strangler’s Honeymoon by the visit, just as he about to go on
holiday, by a priest to the bookshop – a priest who senses foreboding and who
wants to talk to him ‘as a policeman, but not as a policeman’. Van Veeteren is
too rushed to talk then, but promises the priest a meeting on his return. When
he returns Van Veeteren finds the priest killed in an ‘accident’ and a teenage
girl brutally murdered. His suspicions and his involvement begin to grow as he
works with the police (and in particular Eva Moreno) to track down the murderer
– a man they also suspect of other crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fictitious Maardam is core to the story from the smart middle class areas to
the seedier parts of the city. As you read you can sense the deprivation that
some people have to survive – and the weather fits in perfectly. It is grey and
dispiriting… and ties in neatly with the sick violence of the crimes. A truly ‘noir’
setting for the story… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
Strangler’s Honeymoon is very certainly a ‘page turner’, but it is a great deal
more. The characters are well drawn, sympathetic, and believable. The
relationship between Van Veeteren and the current members of the police force
is not straightforward but it comes through in a way with which one can
identify and empathise. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">All
in all The Strangler’s Honeymoon is an excellent book, and one that I would
very certainly recommend.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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TripFiction Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12209040237856010602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205540810030476608.post-28174455742523053162014-02-17T20:35:00.000+00:002014-03-15T13:35:19.156+00:00Novel set on The Isle of Harris (A magical story)<div class="MsoNormal">
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upon Tyne. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two families;
one wife, one partner and four children. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Intriguing.</span><br />
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Richie, a successful musician, suddenly dies and leaves the two families with
different problems to sort out. The two families have never met but know of
each other. Richie never divorced his first wife, Margaret who lives in
Tynemouth with a son, Scott who is in his late 30s. In London, I’m not sure where,
Chrissie tries to pick up the pieces of her devastating loss with her three
daughters, Tamsin, Dilly and Amy. The reading of Richie’s will brings the
family together over a sentimental legacy. Changes have to be made but there is
an issue with acceptance of the situation they find themselves in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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relationships. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The novel is
set in two different cities. I know Newcastle upon Tyne well and the buildings
mentioned, The Sage and The Baltic to name a few. I can picture these iconic
buildings and the view that is described of the Tyne Bridge from Scott’s city
centre flat. But I am wondering if there is a strong enough emphasis upon the
place that other readers would want to visit if they had not before. But
Newcastle upon Tyne does have a hold for one of the family members not only
because of its difference to London but also because of the music opportunities
she can take. And of course Newcastle upon Tyne has long associations with many iconic musicians: Sting, Dire Straits, Bryan Ferry, Lindisfarne, The Lighthouse Family, and Cheryl Cole....(to mention but a few).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an
interesting read and once again Joanna Trollope has written a winner with her
successful style. Some of the sentences take up half a page. It took me a while
to get used to this; but it reads like someone having the conversation in their
head. However, for me the cities could have been anywhere and I don’t know if I
would have wanted to visit them. But after all this book is about people,
relationships, their struggles and coming to terms with a new future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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TripFiction Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12209040237856010602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205540810030476608.post-10539511907641986782014-01-03T10:19:00.001+00:002014-01-03T10:20:10.322+00:00NEW SOUTH WALES "Samanlaiset linnut lentävät yhdessä" * <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/Book/3883" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSsahv7mdh_oTAGWdU63cBef3nIHQ4e9PpXQb2A0spZXrzt5q6-jR1KJYlDIN78xUnYIJqQWeUk7YvdLwi5aThihoetJx9gHrb_EEk8fOG9LAQiKJyALmEV_d-AtYG-eyMxYCBAiXHvl4/s320/51DUfvBG2dL.jpg" width="209" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Railwayman's Wife</b> by <b>Ashley Hay</b> set in <b>Thirroul, NSW</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A tender exploration of marriage and loss for a young woman and her child, living in New South Wales. From the early days of Mac and Ani's marriage, when life glows for the two of them, to the post war years when the couple has a young daughter Bella. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their marriage is the centrepiece of the narrative, beautifully captured as the couple relationship evolves and matures. Ani's family is originally from Scandinvavia and on the morning of her wedding to Mac, her Father writes in her daybook *"The same kinds of birds fly together" in Finnish (as per the title of this post). The novel is set against the background of World War II and its aftermath. Melancholic in feel, the reader accompanies Ani as she takes up the job of librarian at the Thirroul Railway Institute Library, the thunder of the D57 steam trains punctuating the storyline with their hissing, demanding presence. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The trailing detritus of the war" has left its mark on Frank Draper whose memories are clouded by the people he encountered during his years as medic to the wounded. And Roy McKinnon, too, poet and ponderer, who struggles to find his creativity because of his own experiences of the last few years. Their love of the written word is at the heart of the interchanges that Roy and Ani have, especially "Kangaroo" by D H Lawrence, which Ani holds dear. It is set in the very same area in which they live, and she enthuses "I loved the idea that such a story could come from such a pretty seaside town". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bella skips her way through the book, preventing the book from sinking into real melancholia, and the reader is left with hope for the future.</span><br />
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Thirroul up on the map! What inspired you to set your novel in this New South
Wales location?<br />
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always wanted to write about that landscape – it has an amazing escarpment that
reaches down almost to the ocean, and combination of the sky and the mountain and
the water always made it feel a special sort of place. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The novel is partly inspired by an actual moment
in my family’s history (my grandfather was killed in a railway accident and my
grandmother was given the job of Railway Institute librarian in compensation
for this) and that story did take place in Thirroul – albeit with very different
incidents and characters to those in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Railwayman’s Wife</i>. And because I wanted to include the idea of D. H.
Lawrence in the book (he wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kangaroo</i>
during a short stay in Thirroul in the early 1920s), I wanted to keep the
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real psychological insight into ‘loss’. How did it affect you writing about
loss and death and how did you keep you keep yourself buoyant?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><b>AH:</b> While I was writing scenes about Anikka Lachlan,
the railwayman’s wife, hearing about her husband’s death, or the sections about
the war experiences of the poet, Roy McKinnon, or the doctor, Frank Draper, it
didn’t feel different to the mechanics or processes of any other pieces of
writing – I was just trying to make the voices sound right, trying to make the
narrative whole. <br />
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But I know that after I’d written out the scene when Mac, the railwayman, dies
(which you learn about very early in the book but don’t read about until almost
the end), I was incredibly anxious about my own husband’s safety and well-being
for a couple of weeks. It felt like a nasty kind of chutzpah to go around
killing off perfectly lovely husbands … and I made sure mine stayed well away
from anything locomotive for as long as I could.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the railways is like a constant hum in the background. Do you have a particular
interest in trains, as there is quite some detail about engines and so forth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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because sound was one of the ways I found this novel in the first place. I was
listening to a talk in the library where my grandmother had worked when a train
pulled into the platform outside and I realized how horrifically close and big
and huge it sounded. I realized she’d had to work that close to the sound of
the thing that had killed her husband, every single day for years. And I was
fascinated by that proximity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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confession: I had a son while I was writing this novel, and he’s the kind of
lovely little boy who loves trains – reading about them, watching them, playing
with them, building his own tracks. So, really, a lot of my train-ish research
came from reading him Rev. W. Awdry’s original <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thomas the Tank Engine </i>books – which are a very good source for
these sorts of particulars. I could feel like a tops mother who was reading a
huge number of books to her small person while I was secretly researching halts
and footplates and boilers and guards at the same time …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><b>AH:</b> There weren’t a lot of writers around on the south
coast of New South Wales in the late 1980s – D. H. Lawrence was long gone – so
I wasn’t sure how to go about becoming one. I did a journalism degree thinking
that I might be able to get a job as a journalist and then work out if I was
any good at this intriguing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">other</i>
sort of writing after that. It turned out to be a good theory and I made my way
from journalism’s starting point through essays and narrative non-fiction to
this seductive world of writing fiction and Making Things Up. But I still work
as a freelance journalist – you get to enjoy having words appear much more
rapidly than they can when you’re working as a novelist, which is nice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you can – that’s the best way to learn. And write as much as you can too –
regularly, and for its own sake, not just to try to publish. It’s an essential
criterion for being a writer that you actually write. Also if you find a good
editor, nail their feet to the floor and never let them out of your sight …
they can help you make your stories sing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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currently working on? Will location be an important feature?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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and Thirroul (for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Railwayman’s Wife</i>)
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to my husband (whose job had brought us to the capital of Queensland in the
first place) that I wanted to write a book about where I was for a change, and
did he think we could sit still in Brisbane long enough for me to finish one?
It’s set in Fairfield, the riverside piece of this city that we live in, and
location is – again – very important to the plot. I think place has been
important to pretty much everything I’ve written – in essays, in narrative
non-fiction, and certainly in my novels and short stories. It always rises up
like a character and makes a space for itself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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what is your choice of leisure reading?<br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><br /><b>AH:</b> Anything from the teetering piles of unread books that sit like skyscrapers
around my house; I promise myself at the beginning of each year that I won’t
buy any new books until I’ve made a dint in the ones I haven’t read yet – and
my resolve fails ten minutes’ later in the January sales. <br />
<br />
The best match between a journey and a story that I’ve managed recently was
reading Michelle de Kretser’s extraordinary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Questions
of Travel</i> while I was away from home myself, and in Jordan of all exotic
places. That gave an added punch to her wonderful meditations on our different
ways and reasons for moving through the world.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Thank you to Ashley for her generous time in answering our questions. You can find out more about the author via her <a href="http://www.ashleyhay.com.au/" target="_blank">website</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>TripFiction Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12209040237856010602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205540810030476608.post-55310101106780752962014-01-01T11:40:00.000+00:002014-03-15T08:00:43.745+00:00ROME - a marriage of smoke and mirrors<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This <a href="http://www.tripfiction.com/novel-set-rome-marriage-smoke-mirrors/" target="_blank">post</a> is now on our new website.</span><br />
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<br />TripFiction Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12209040237856010602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205540810030476608.post-35710400980109537082013-12-29T10:20:00.000+00:002014-09-20T10:24:29.401+01:00ICELAND - 'a foreign world'<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-indent: 0cm;">
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0cm;">Burial Rites</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0cm;"> by </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0cm;">Hannah Kent</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0cm;"> set in </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0cm;">ICELAND</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span><br />
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