When she leaves the ward she feels the whiteness of the room still inside her, as if she is bleached out inside. It is the shock, she tells herself. She feels the whiteness like a dam holding back all...

I just can’t imagine me without you… It’s the mid-1990s, and fifteen year-old Guernsey schoolgirls, Renée and Flo, are not really meant to be friends. Thoughtful, introspective and studious Flo couldn’t be more different to ambitious, extroverted and sexually...

Scott’s haunting and hilarious second collection of short stories is set in disparate spots across the American map — from Kansas to Cape Cod to New York City — and are written with such piercing universality that you sense...

Contemporary Irish crime fiction set in Dublin and Kilkenny. Peril is the story of Gerard Mayes, an anti-hero. Men want to be him, women want to redeem him. Ger’s story is fiction, but his origins are real – everyday...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...