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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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Shadows in the Spring

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  • Book: Sakina’s Kiss
  • Location: Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Author: Srinath Perur (Translator), Vivek Shanbhag

"This is a short novel of around 180 pages, and it is a peak into middle class Indian society. Venkat and..."

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  • Book: The Artist
  • Location: Provence
  • Author: Lucy Steeds

"It is 1920. Somewhere near Avignon lives an ageing artist called Tartuffe. Taking care of all his needs is his niece..."

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  • Location: Oslo
  • Author: Jørn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger

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A complex and ambitious thriller

  • Book: The Exile
  • Location: Spain
  • Author: Mark Oldfield

"The Exile is a complex and ambitious thriller. It covers the time immediately following WW2 in Europe as it heads into..."

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Lead Review (The Lollipop Man)

  • Book: The Lollipop Man
  • Location: West Yorkshire
  • Author: Daniel Sellers

"The Lollipop Man is a brutal and sinister thriller set in West Yorkshire. It also, perhaps strangely, has the feel of..."

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  • Book: Grace of the Empire State
  • Location: Manhattan
  • Author: Gemma Tizzard

"1930 New York and the Depression is in full swing. People are scrabbling around for food and jobs and life for..."

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  • Book: Inborn
  • Location: Norway
  • Author: Kari Dickson (Translator), Thomas Enger

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Lead Review (Yeonnam-Dong’s Smiley Laundromat)

  • Book: Yeonnam-dong’s Smiley Laundromat
  • Location: Seoul, Yeonnam-dong
  • Author: Kim Jiyun, Shanna Tan (Translator)

"Yeonnam-Dong’s Smiley Laundromat is a debut novel for Korean writer Kim Jiyun and translated by Shanna Tan. It is an endearing..."

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Lead Review (When We Were Killers)

  • Book: When We Were Killers
  • Location: Dundee/St Andrews
  • Author: C F Barrington

"Finn Nethercott is enrolled in an MA in Bible Studies and Early Christian Culture and commences his studies in 1992. He..."

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  • Book: Old Soul
  • Location: World
  • Author: Susan Barker

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