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Gatecrashing Paradise: Misadventures in the Real Maldives

Gatecrashing Paradise: Misadventures in the Real Maldives
  • Author(s): Tom Chesshyre
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Away from the five-star hotels and beyond luxury hideaways, Tom Chesshyre travels to see the real, unexplored Maldives, skirting around the archipelagos periphery, staying at simple guesthouses, and using cargo ships and ferries. He discovers that beyond the glossy...

The Island

The Island
  • Author(s): Catherine Cooper
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1990s

The perfect escape, or the perfect trap? When a select group of influencers and journalists receive an exclusive invitation to a luxury resort in the Maldives, it seems like the ultimate press trip. But when the island is cut...

Beach Babylon

Beach Babylon
  • Author(s): Imogen Edwards Jones
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The TripFiction team conjectures from events in the book, that this book is set in The Maldives: however the book only acknowledges that is set somewhere exotic. The book alludes to it being a Muslim country, there is an...

Mad Love

Mad Love
  • Author(s): Colet Abedi
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

23-year-old aspiring artist Sophie Walker can think of no better place than the exotic paradise of the Maldives Islands to escape the wrath of her controlling parents, the monotony of her boring legal work and her passionless boyfriend. With...

On the Island

On the Island
  • Author(s): Tracey Garvis Graves
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a summer job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family’s holiday home in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation: a tropical island beats the library any day. T.J. has no desire to...

The Honeymoon

The Honeymoon
  • Author(s): Tina Seskis
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s trouble in paradise . . . For as long as she can remember, Jemma has been planning the perfect honeymoon. A fortnight’s retreat to a five-star resort in the Maldives, complete with luxury villas, personal butlers and absolute...

The Maldive Mystery

The Maldive Mystery
  • Author(s): Thor Heyerdahl
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Various

One of the world’s foremost explorers investigates the origins of Maldive history and discovers that the seemingly remote and insignificant islands on the Indian Ocean once formed a crucial crossroads for early pre-European civilizations

A Maldives Adventure

A Maldives Adventure
  • Author(s): Naomi Davies
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After a roller coaster year, Sandy and Anne decide that they need a holiday. Nothing quite goes to plan however, and things start to go wrong even before they have boarded their flight. Nevertheless they do eventually arrive safely...

Bad Tourists

Bad Tourists
  • Author(s): Caro Carver
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Is it ever a good idea to go on holiday with friends? Darcy, Camilla and Kate have each come on this trip of a lifetime for a reason – to celebrate a divorce, to find love, to try to...

Folk Tales of the Maldives

Folk Tales of the Maldives
  • Author(s): Xavier Romero-Frias
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): various centuries

The Maldives are mainly known as an equatorial tourist paradise to the south of India but some will know the archipelago risks drowning owing to global warming. Far less is known about the people, who have occupied these islands...

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