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TripFiction – plaudits, praise and validation

6th July 2018

We launched TripFiction a few years ago to provide an easily searchable database of books with a strong sense of place, and to help the reader see a location through an author’s eyes. How much more enjoyable is a holiday if you’re immersed in a book where the characters are walking the same streets as you, and you’re sharing the same history and food? Or the vicarious sense of travel you get from reading a book in the comfort of your armchair at home?

TripFiction - plaudits, praise and validation

We are proud that the TripFiction database now has thousands of books – novels, memoirs and travelogues – on the database, covering hundreds of destinations around the world, all searchable by location, title, author and genre. Most have reviews that rate each book by strength of location and content, and new books and reviews are being added to the database every day.

TripFiction - plaudits, praise and validation

Please read this article to find out everything else that TripFiction now offers, helping to bring the parallel worlds of books and travel to vivid life for TripFiction members. And if you’ll excuse a moment of quiet self-congratulation, we’re thrilled that a lot of you say we’re on the right track….here are just a few of your lovely comments over the last year or so:

  • Swoon. I love TripFiction – June 2018
  • This is a nice review, but I’m REALLY excited about the concept of the website – have just looked up which books to read at every destination for the rest of my tour – author Emma Healey – June 2018
  • I have never travelled to NY, but if I could, I’d want to see it all, as I’m sure the way I imagine it is much different in real life. I’d want to spend enough time there to visit all the sites, do some shopping, hit up the food vendors, and take a stroll through Central Park. However, if I could only chose one place to spend my time, I would go to where the twin towers once stood. I am a high school teacher, and every year it becomes more and more difficult to teach kids about the events of 9/11 because they either weren’t alive yet or they were just babies. To them, our world today is the only world they have ever known.  I think visiting would give me new insight on how to best help our youth of today make connections with those of yesterday. For now, though, I am so very thankful for what books offer us all in terms of travel and learning! Without them, some of us would never even get leave our hometown. I’m so glad I found your site…I love it here! 🙂– May 2018
  • I just wanted to drop you a note to say thanks so much for the brilliant reviews. Quite a few books that I’ve published have been reviewed on the website, and they’re always so thoughtful and interesting. So, just a note of appreciation! – publisher – May 2018
  • It’s been a whole year since you hosted The Witchfinder’s Sister on TripFiction, and I wanted to get in touch properly to say a massive thank you. The book has found an audience I never dreamed of, and a huge part of that is down to the book blogging community. Authors wouldn’t be anywhere without you – author Beth Underdown – April 2018
  • Grazie mille, TripFiction – you are the most wonderful resource for travel literature, interviews and reviews – editor JoAnn Locktov – November 2017
  • I love this site, and I really enjoyed the interview – November 2017
  • Our holiday planning always starts with your website – August 2017
  • Your website is my first port of call when deciding what to read on my travels – August 2017
  • TripFiction is one of my favourite review & blog sites – August 2017
  • I agree. A brilliant resource – August 2017
  • Trip Fiction is basically one of the coolest blogs ever; do you ever want to escape somewhere?  Maybe travel to Egypt or spend an afternoon in Paris?  Well, type in your locale of choice into the Trip Fiction database and out pops a book for you to escape in! Super fun concept and amazing for developing diversity in your To Be Read pile, I always head to Trip Fiction when I feel the need to “get away” – July 2017

So please spread the TripFiction word even further, and tell all your friends and contacts how TripFiction should be their first port of call for books with a strong sense of place, helping the reader see a location through an author’s eyes.

And please do come and join team TripFiction on Social Media:

Twitter (@TripFiction), Facebook (@TripFiction.Literarywanderlust), YouTube (TripFiction #Literarywanderlust), Instagram (@TripFiction) and Pinterest (@TripFiction

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