A year or so ago, I came across a marvellous website called Trip Fiction. It was founded in 2012 (the year of the UK Olympics seems rather apt) but the germ of the idea had occurred to the founders, Tina and Tony, long before that. I've found it so useful and it's always nice to share a good thing so I asked Andrew Morris, who is now one of the team, to come along and tell my readers more.
Thank you so much, Harriet, for
inviting TripFiction to introduce ourselves to your own book-loving audience.
Books set in location offer great travel reading. TripFiction was
created to make it easy to match a location with a book, and thanks to our
searchable database you can find a book relevant to any trip. TripFiction
features novels, travelogues and memoirs set in over 1,500 countries, regions,
and cities from around the world, so your destination is almost bound to
be covered.
TripFiction
lets you see a location through an author’s eyes.
Works of fiction generate a feel for,
and empathy with, a location that is quite different to that obtained through
conventional travel guides. Literature – modern or historical – can help us
absorb atmosphere and context in a way that no other written word finds
possible.
TripFiction was created to make
it easy for you to select literature that is most pertinent and
relevant to your trip in a way that has not been practical
before. You can search books by location, by author, by genre – and cross
reference across all three. So, apart from just selecting by location, you can
see which countries feature on your favourite author’s books, or whether a book
of a particular genre is set in a city you are about to visit.
The website does not just list titles.
Each title has a synopsis and frequently a lead review. It also carries
reviews and ratings by members of the TripFiction community – ratings are
given for both the content of the book and also for how well it portrays the
location itself.
And we carry interviews with authors,
talking about their work and how important a specific location, or a strong
general sense of place, might be in their writing. You'll remember this
lovely #TalkingLocationWith post,
Harriet, where you told TripFiction how Sri Lanka was the perfect setting for
your own Inspector de Silva series.
We also set up the TripFiction Book
Club (#TFBookClub) earlier this year to allow readers to win a book set in a
particular location, and for us all to read and comment on the book together
for a couple of months. So far we've travelled to Sardinia, Prague, Central America and
the Lake District.
And we are delighted that your very own Trouble
in Nuala, the first in your Inspector de Silva series, will be the
#TFBookClub read for November & December, allowing readers to travel with
you to exotic Sri Lanka.
(There will be a limited number of free
paperback copies of the book as well as e-copies to give away to readers who
participate in the TF Book Club. In addition, the lucky winner of the
associated giveaway competition will win a copy of each of the three books in
the series and, for an extra relaxing read, a delightful elephant mug and some
Ceylon tea to drink out of it! Look out for more news soon.)
Thanks again for letting us introduce
TripFiction to your audience, Harriet, and we look forward to exploring the
world with them through books.
Social media
links for TF:
Twitter (@TripFiction),
Facebook (@TripFiction.Literarywanderlust),
YouTube (TripFiction #Literarywanderlust),
Instagram (@TripFiction) and
Pinterest (@TripFiction)
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