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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 2,800 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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Recently Added Books

Falling for Saigon

Falling for Saigon

Author: Connie Stokes

Location: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

Genre: Travelogue

The Barbecue at No.9

The Barbecue at No.9

Author: Jennie Godfrey

Location: England

Genre: Fiction, Mystery

Broken House

Broken House

Author: Louisa Scarr

Location: New Forest, Newcastle upon Tyne, Southampton

Genre: Police Procedural

The Stopping Place

The Stopping Place

Author: Carmel Harrington

Location: France

Genre: Crime, Thriller

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Lead Review (Tombstoning)

  • Book: Tombstoning
  • Location: Arbroath
  • Author: Doug Johnstone

"20th anniversary re-release Author Chris Brookmyre pens the introduction to this resurrected novel and he ruminates on the success of Johnstone’s..."

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Lead Review (Everyone Brave is Forgiven)

  • Book: Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
  • Location: London, Malta
  • Author: Chris Cleave

"The author was inspired by his own family’s experiences during WW2, both in London and on Malta. Mary is an 18..."

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Lead Review (Ask Not)

  • Book: Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
  • Location: United States (USA)
  • Author: Maureen Callahan

"This is a very readable account and interpretation of the lives of many of the women in the American Kennedy clan...."

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Lead Review (After He Died)

  • Book: After He Died
  • Location: Argyll and Bute, Glasgow
  • Author: Michael J Malone

"  #fromourbookshelves After He Died by Michael J Malone is a psychological thriller and another entertaining read from this clever and..."

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Lead Review (Swallows)

  • Book: Swallows
  • Location: Japan
  • Author: Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (Translator), Natsuo Kirino

"  Natsuo Kirino’s novel, Swallows, translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, is a provocative and emotionally layered exploration of surrogacy, class and independence in..."

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Lead Review (Cairo Gambit)

  • Book: Cairo Gambit
  • Location: Egypt, Palestine
  • Author: S W Perry

"Archie Nevenden, a successful businessman working in oil and as a part time theatre impresario, goes missing in Cairo. His daughter..."

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Lead Review (I Would Die For You)

  • Book: I Would Die For You
  • Location: Coronado Island, La Jolla
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"In 2011 Nicole Forbes is well settled in family life. She is a great defender of the local seal colony and..."

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Lead Review (Fundamentally)

  • Book: Fundamentally
  • Location: Iraq
  • Author: Nussaibah Younis

"Dr Nadia Amin has taken a job based in Iraq, working for the UN on a programme of deradicalisation and rehabilitation..."

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Lead Review (The House of Ashes)

  • Book: The House of Ashes
  • Location: Belfast, County Antrim
  • Author: Stuart Neville

"#fromourbookshelves At the heart of the story is a house called The Ashes. It has derived its name from the trees..."

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Lead Review (The Viper)

  • Book: The Viper
  • Location: Tuscany
  • Author: Christobel Kent

"This is no. 6 in the Sandro Cellini series, his final outing. Just outside Florence is a derelict farmhouse, la Vipera...."

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