This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is: “Books for Armchair Travellers”

There are lots of ways I could have approached this topic, but the ten books I’ve chosen are set in places that I’ve never visited and probably never will. It was nice to have the opportunity to ‘see’ them through the pages of these books!

1. The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)

2. The English Girl by Katherine Webb (Oman)

3. Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton (The Falkland Islands)

4. The Missing Sister by Dinah Jefferies (Myanmar)

5. The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart (Syria and Lebanon)

6. The Predicament by William Boyd (Multiple locations including Guatemala)

7. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)

8. Death in Zanzibar by M.M. Kaye (Zanzibar)

9. Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain (Borneo)

10. Scales of Gold by Dorothy Dunnett (Multiple locations including Mali and The Gambia)

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Have you read any of these? And have you been to any of these places or, like me, are you only likely to visit them from your armchair?