- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1940s,
Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her loveless home but when she finally made it to the forbidden streets of...
- Location(s): Westchester
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Amine Wefali had four beautiful children and houses in Westchester, Nantucket, and Florida–but her marriage had become acrimonious. She had moved into the attic of her exclusive home in Westchester, a suburb of New York, while Phillip, her prosperous...
- Location(s): Nashville
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
‘What happens in Nashville, stays in Nashville!’ Claire Buchan is hardly over the moon about the prospect of her sister’s hen party; travelling from the UK to Nashville, Tennessee, for a week of honky-tonks, karaoke and cowboys. Certainly not...
- Location(s): Mallorca
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
At TripFiction we debated long and hard whether to include this novel. It is “set in” Mallorca but the main character never actually goes there! See what you think! Sophie Sturgeon can’t wait for her annual summer holiday. Not...
- Location(s): Cairo, Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
A heartbreaking tale of impossible love in late-twentieth century Egypt. Cairo, 1980s. Tarek’s whole life is laid out for him. A doctor like his father, he has taken over the family medical practice, married his childhood sweetheart and is...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 1960s
“In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military objective other than...
- Location(s): Taroudant, Marrakech
- Genre(s): Suspense, Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
An intense, claustrophobic psychological novel about the dark side of expat life, and what being out of your comfort zone can do to you, set in the vibrant souks and ancient riads of Marrakech A unique friendship, built on...
What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia
- Location(s): Middlesex, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Michele Hanson grew up an ‘oddball tomboy disappointment’ in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s – a suburban, Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials. Yet this shopfront of respectability masked a multitude of...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1950s, 1960s
Rome in the 1950s, there’s nowhere quite like it. The narrow stone streets, the fountains and piazzas full of life in the heat of the day, the cafes and bars full of music and desire by night… This is...
- Location(s): London, Swiss Alps, Wales
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): early 1900s onwards
The story of Grace Farringdon, who looks back on her life on the eve of the anniversary of the death of her friends. Growing up in early 1900’s Dulwich (South East London), Grace longs to escape her dreary life....
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