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Books with a sense of time and place

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jerrywesterby · 10/03/2023 10:59

I love books where I can get completely immersed in a different place or time in history, don't mind when or where as long as it's somewhere new to discover!

I like crime genre so some of my recent favourites have been Jane Harper, set in the Australian outback and one I can't remember the author but set in East Berlin in the 1980s

Please give me your favourites I need some inspiration!

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ChessieFL · 16/03/2023 06:32

Look at Robert Goddard. Writes mysteries/thrillers but lots have a historical setting and a few are partly set in other countries (there’s a few featuring Japan and the latest was partly set in Algeria).

Ukholidaysaregreat · 15/03/2023 19:42

Ooo! Love Michelle Paver. Off to Google thin air! Have read the other 2 but not heard of that one.

EmmaEmerald · 15/03/2023 19:40

Agree re Michelle Paver

Also The Thorn Birds if you fancy an old fashioned saga. It made me want to go to Australia and the descriptions were spot on in terms of landscape.

reverseferreting · 15/03/2023 19:38

Kristin Hannah really gets it right for me especially 'the great alone' which is set in Alaska. So immersive.

Rauha · 15/03/2023 17:19

'Don't Let Go' by Michel Bussi has a deep sense of place. It's set on Réunion.

Corcomroe · 15/03/2023 17:13

Anything by John McGahern. Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy. Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer (Appalachians). Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September (1920s Big House Ireland) or The Heat of the Day (WW2 London).

PritiPatelsMaker · 15/03/2023 17:10

How about Scrublands by Chris Hammer?

CoolCalmCollected · 15/03/2023 14:48

Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell gave me that immersive feeling.

CrossPurposes · 10/03/2023 11:12

A Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

Dark Matter, Thin Air, and Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver

PacificallyRequested · 10/03/2023 11:03

Not crime but I loved:
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Villa America by Liza Klaussman

JassyRadlett · 10/03/2023 11:00

Ah I was going to suggest the Jane Harpers! I grew up in rural Australia and she really gets it right...

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