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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.

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Recently Added Books

I Think We Should Kill Other People

I Think We Should Kill Other People

Author: L M Chilton

Location: Norway, South East England

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Everyone in the Group Chat Dies

Everyone in the Group Chat Dies

Author: L M Chilton

Location: Crowhurst

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery

No Land To Light On

No Land To Light On

Author: Yara Zgheib

Location: Boston

Genre: Fiction

The One Day You Were My Husband

The One Day You Were My Husband

Author: Rosie Walsh

Location: England, Stockholm, Thailand

Genre: Fiction

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Lead Review (I Thin We should Kill Other People)

  • Book: I Think We Should Kill Other People
  • Location: Norway, South East England
  • Author: L M Chilton

"The novel opens in a tiny airport on a tiny Norwegian island in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. Marc and..."

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Lead Review (No Land to Light On)

  • Book: No Land To Light On
  • Location: Boston
  • Author: Yara Zgheib

"Longlisted for the 2022 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize #fromourbookshelves The novel opens with details of an American Executive Order, penned..."

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Lead Review (Room 706)

  • Book: Room 706
  • Location: London
  • Author: Ellie Levenson

"Early June 2025 I began to see a lot of talk about this novel on Social Media, there was a real..."

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Lead Review (The Snow Child)

  • Book: The Snow Child
  • Location: Alaska
  • Author: Eowyn Ivey

"The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, novel set in ALASKA, USA. #fromourbookshelves   The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey is a..."

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Lead Review (Murder Tide)

  • Book: Murder Tide
  • Location: Reykjavik
  • Author: Quentin Bates (Translator), Stella Blómkvist

"Stella Blomkvist is both the author’s pen name and the name of the protagonist in a series of Noir crime thrillers..."

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Lead Review (The Coming Fire)

  • Book: The Coming Fire
  • Location: Caribbean
  • Author: Greg Mosse

"Greg Mosse’s The Coming Fire is the thrilling conclusion to his Coming Darkness trilogy, plunging readers back into a near-future dystopian..."

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Lead Review (Spanish Beauty)

  • Book: Spanish Beauty
  • Location: Benidorm
  • Author: Esther Garcia Llovet, Richard Village (Translator)

"“Benidorm, the city that never sleeps, the city in every time zone at once, the city where the bars are open..."

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Lead Review (You Lied First)

  • Book: You Lied First
  • Location: Cheltenham, Oman
  • Author: Annabel Kantaria

"  Margot and Guy Forrest used to live in Oman as expats. They have now re-settled in England, in Charlton Kings..."

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Lead Review (The Scrapbook)

  • Book: The Scrapbook
  • Location: Cambridge (Massachusetts), Germany
  • Author: Heather Clark

"1996: Anna, an American, is aware of her Grandfather’s history, that he was one of the first Americans to enter Hitler’s..."

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Lead Review (Red Water)

  • Book: Red Water
  • Location: Croatia
  • Author: Jurica Pavičic, Matt Robinson (Translator)

"The story opens in 1989 in fictional Misto on the Dalmatian Coast, just a few years before the Bosnian War 1992-94..."

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