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Playing for Thrills

Playing for Thrills
  • Author(s): Wang Shuo
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s

A tripped out sarcastic novel of urban alienation centred around a mysterious murder. Set in a Beijing populated by low-life gangsters and villains, it is narrated by the chief suspect of the crime though even he seems unclear as...

Pohon Setan

Pohon Setan
  • Author(s): Ben Brown
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern

We were so pleased to add this book to our database, as it ticks so many of the boxes for us at TripFiction. A good storyline that would be even better read in location, in Vietnam: evocative of location...

Pollyanna

Pollyanna
  • Author(s): Eleanor H Porter
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

When orphan Pollyanna is sent to live with her bad-tempered aunt, she realizes that many of the folk in Beldingsville could use her help. As she brings cheer and hope to the people around her, and reminds them that...

Pomegranate Soup

Pomegranate Soup
  • Author(s): Marsha Mehran
  • Location(s): County Mayo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

For the inhabitants of the damp little Irish town of Ballinacroagh, the repertoire of gastronomic delights has never extended farther than the limp meals of th loacl inn’s carvery. But things are about to change when the beautiful Aminpour...

Prey

Prey
  • Author(s): Linda Howard
  • Location(s): Montana
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Following the death of her father, Angie Powell takes over his business as a wilderness guide in the Montana mountains. Business is booming until disaster strikes when enigmatic ex-soldier Dare Callahan returns from service and sets up as a...

Princess

Princess
  • Author(s): Jean Sasson
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Princess Sultana tells the story of her life – her luxurious “prison sentence”, because she is a mere woman in a land, Saudi, where women have little worth. No rights, no choice, she is constantly told what will happen...

Promised Lands

Promised Lands
  • Author(s): Jane Rogers
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century and Modern

Modern day Steven is writing the story of William Dawes, who is one of the first Englishmen to set foot on Australia. His mission is to set up an astrological observatory to study the skies in the southern hemisphere....

Queen of America

Queen of America
  • Author(s): Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

After the bloody Tomochic rebellion, Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and ‘Saint of Cabora,’ flees with her father to Arizona. But their plans are derailed when she once again is claimed as the spiritual leader of the Mexican Revolution. Besieged...

Raising the Dead

Raising the Dead
  • Author(s): Phillip Finch
  • Location(s): Kalahari Desert
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

A true story of death and survival in the world’s most dangerous sport, cave diving. Two friends plunge 900 ft deep into the water of the Komali Springs in South Africa, to raise the body of a diver who...

Reckless Weekend

Reckless Weekend
  • Author(s): Eden Summers
  • Location(s): Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Romance

In Vegas, a lot can happen in twenty-four hours. What do you get when you mix a rock band as hot as Reckless Beat, women strong enough to capture several of the bad boys’ hearts, and a bet that...

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