Your travel fiction guide

I have just finished reading Marti Lembach’s The Man from Saigon set in the Vietnam War. While I am fascinated with all countries, I tend to stay away from books set during this war, perhaps because I have seen so many films and television series about the conflict that I feel I already have a [...]

This month sees the release of a novel that has been more than thirty years in the making. Karl Marlantes is a former marine who, in 1977, wrote a novel inspired by his time in combat in Vietnam. Thirty-three years later Matterhorn is finally hitting the shelves. The book was rejected over and over again, [...]