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Books set in location – great reading for your travels

Books set in location offer great travel reading. TripFiction was created to make it easy to match a location with a book, and thanks to our searchable database you can find a book relevant to any trip. A resource for both actual and armchair travellers.

TripFiction features many thousands of novels, travelogues and memoirs set in over 2,500 countries, regions, and cities from around the world – so your taste and destination are almost bound to be covered. We are an Amazon Affiliate and we earn a commission for every book purchased through our site. We do this to enable us not to charge for either Membership or individual book searches.

When you are planning your travel reading, don’t forget to research your location on TripFiction. You will find advice on the best books to read for wherever you want to go. TripFiction lets you see a location through an author’s eyes.

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This Bright Life

This Bright Life

Author: Karen Campbell

Location: Glasgow

Genre: Fiction, Young Adult

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Lead Review (There are Rivers in the Sky)

  • Book: There are Rivers in the Sky
  • Location: Iraq, London, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Author: Elif Shafak

"WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS 2025 – FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE An ambitious, sweeping novel, with..."

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  • Book: On The Greenwich Line
  • Location: East London, South London
  • Author: Katharine Halls (Translator), Shady Lewis

"This is a short novel of 170 pages or so, written with authority and humour. It is beautifully translated by Katharine..."

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Lead Review (Hunkeler’s Secret)

  • Book: Hunkeler’s Secret
  • Location: Alsace, Basel
  • Author: Hansjörg Schneider

"This is the 4th outing for Peter Hunkeler, retired police inspector and as the novel opens he is in hospital having..."

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  • Book: The Kashmir Shawl
  • Location: Ladakh, Srinagar
  • Author: Rosie Thomas

"I was recently travelling thought Northern India and this novel fitted the bill for me. There was history – at both..."

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Lead Review (Big Sister)

  • Book: Big Sister
  • Location: Bergen
  • Author: Don Bartlett (translator), Gunnar Staalesen

"Gunnar Staalesen is one of the acknowledged godfathers of Nordic Noir, and in this well written and engaging novel – no.18..."

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Lead Review (The Lantern’s Dance)

  • Book: The Lantern’s Dance
  • Location: Kolkata (Calcutta), Nimes, Paris, The Midlands
  • Author: Laurie R King

"Laurie R King’s The Lantern’s Dance is the latest in a long series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell. This richly..."

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  • Book: The Invisible Web
  • Location: Berlin, Freiburg
  • Author: Jamie Bulloch (Translator), Oliver Bottini

"The book opens in Berlin. There is a mysterious attack on a man in the corridor of a hotel. The assailant..."

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Lead Review (My Other Heart)

  • Book: My Other Heart
  • Location: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Philadelphia, Tokyo
  • Author: Emma Nanami Strenner

"My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Stenner is a beautifully written exploration of identity and belonging, especially as those things apply..."

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Lead Review (Die Liebe Sucht Ein Zimmer)

  • Book: Die Liebe sucht ein Zimmer
  • Location: Warsaw
  • Author: David Safier

"I first came across David Safier when I read A Miss Merkel Mystery: Murder at the Castle (TR into English: by..."

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