#tripfiction

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[velocipedestrienne]

Books set in location offer great holiday reads. They help us get under the skin of a place in a way that is impossible to do with a travel guide.

TripFiction tweeted at me because I'm on the hunt for contemporary novels set in Oklahoma (I'm really tired of seeing The Grapes of Wrath at the top of these lists) and now I'm obsessed with their site.

[ebruweston]

"Juju, guilt and so much more in West Africa. Meet the couple behind the travels...." by TripFiction

"West Africa  is nobody's idea of a dream holiday destination" - so opens The Ringtone and the Drum by Mark Weston; Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso and and Guinea-Bissau are the world's poorest countries. Mark's wife Ebru is persuaded to accompany him on this trip, to a part of the world where you can neither retreat into the comfortable cocoon of a Western hotel chain to get a breather, nor is detachment possible - your physical and psychological distance is stripped away and you are dragged into the pulsating mêlée.

New review of The Ringtone and the Drum, plus an interview with Mark and Ebru Weston about travelling in West Africa: http://bit.ly/10dlxla