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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.

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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Recently Added Books

The Artist

Author: Lucy Steeds

Location: Provence

Genre: Historical, Fiction

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Author: Kate Rhodes

Location: Isles of Scilly

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Latest Reviews

Lead Review (The Big Chill)

  • Book: The Big Chill
  • Location: Scotland
  • Author: Doug Johnstone

"EDINBURGH SPOTLIGHT REVIEW The Big Chill by Dough Johnstone No. 2 in ‘The Skelfs’ Series Running private-investigator and funeral-home businesses means..."

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Sepulchre Street (Lead Review)

  • Book: Sepulchre Street
  • Location: London
  • Author: Martin Edwards

"The Rachel Savernake books reinvent Golden Age tropes in various ways and the author lays out any clues that the reader..."

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Lead Review (There’s Been A Little Incident)

  • Book: There’s Been A Little Incident
  • Location: Dublin, Ireland
  • Author: Alice Ryan

"A unique family story, with Irish heart and humour, which ultimately tackles some of life’s bigger issues. Molly Black has left..."

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Lead Review (The White Circle)

  • Book: The White Circle
  • Location: Baden-Württemberg
  • Author: Jamie Bulloch (Translator), Oliver Bottini

"This is a crisply told, fast moving story that can be read as a standalone, but it might be a richer..."

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Lead Review (The Half Moon)

  • Book: The Half Moon
  • Location: New York State
  • Author: Mary Beth Keane

"An engrossing novel of ordinary lives and a novel that will appeal to readers who are keen on Mary Lawson and..."

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Lead Review (Wild Thorns)

  • Book: Wild Thorns
  • Location: Nablus, West Bank
  • Author: Elizabeth Fernea, Sahar Khalifeh, Trevor Le Gassick (Translator)

"This story is set in 1972  was first published in 1976 and tells the story of Usama al-Karmi, who has been..."

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Lead Review (the Ice Swimmer)

  • Book: The Ice Swimmer
  • Location: Oslo
  • Author: Kjell Ola Dahl

"The Ice Swimmer is the sixth in Dahl’s Oslo Detective series and starts off with a chilling chase through the city’s..."

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  • Book: The Shadows of Seville
  • Location: Seville
  • Author: David Canford

"This was a good story and well written. It is set in the Spanish Civil War and is historically accurate. Highly..."

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Lead Review (Half Swimmer)

  • Book: Half Swimmer
  • Location: Berlin, Germany
  • Author: Jo Heinrich (Translator), Katja Oskamp

"The stories are set in and around Berlin, forming snapshot vignettes of Tanja’s life. She is a teen, developing into a..."

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Lead Review (Frank and Red)

  • Book: Frank and Red
  • Location: North London
  • Author: Matt Coyne

"Red (otherwise known as Leonard), age 6, moves in to the house next door to Frank. Red’s mum is separated from..."

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