Books set in Dorset or on trains.

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I like a book to match a holiday. I'm off todorset with notsoD H to do something to do with trains. At least he's going to look at trains and I intend to moon around living in a novel. Sunning myself on the beach and imbibing in a little gin or cocktail.

Ideas please.

Thomas Hardy?

Possibly. Maybe something a bit lighter?

Moonfleet?

Marking my place - i love dorset and trains are quite nice.

sorry, not helpful

On Chesil beach?

The Nine Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers is ALL about trains.

The Last Battle by CS Lewis - trains are involved.

Red for Danger by L something Holt - every railway accident in the first 150 years of railways or thereabouts, in graphic detail. Absolutely brilliant.

Persuasion by jane Austen

On Chesil Beach - if you hate yourself, and your DH, and the world.

Ok :o How about Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier? It's set in Lyme Regis, about Mary Anning.

Persuasion by Jane Austen is partially set in Lyme Regis too.

Ooh remarkable creatures sounds good. One of my favourite books as a child was Mary Anning's Treasures which is out of print and some ludicrous price on amazon.

And Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller (on my tbr list).

Thomas Hardy is fantastic! You really get the sense of Dorset as it was.

Murder on the orient express 😄

Murder on the orient express 😄

Yes! Or The 4.50 from Paddington. I love a bit of Agatha Christie....

I have remarkable creatures. Love persuasion.
Chesil beach may not be what I need for a weekend away with th e H and the trains.

Love agatha but they are quite pricey on kindle. I may need to read an actual book!

The French Lieutenant's Woman is set in Lyme. Or there's always the Famous Five books...

Agatha may be what I need. I can imagine I am a 20s chic chick in pearls and sip my gin with hercule.

Antonia Forest was a children's writer. Many of her books were set in a (fictionalised) Dorset. Ready Made Family in particular has trains in. (Is partly about step families) .

Or of course there's The Railway Children!

Remarkable Creatures by Tracey Chevalier is fab,couldn't put it down.

Set in Lyme Regis. You will be obsessed by Mary Anning and fossils after.

Oh brilliant! Love matching books with location. So, if you are looking for books set in Dorset, check out my curated books set there: www.tripfiction.com/find-a-book/?location=Dorset&reset=1

Rosanna Ley's new book The Little Theatre By the Sea is set there (but you get a good dollop of Sardinia too!)

Have a lovely holiday!!

The Secret of the Sirens takes place in the southern regions of a fictional Great Britain in the seaside town of Hescombe - is that the right place?

Seconding Antonia Forest.

You could go non-fiction and read Christian Wolmar about British railways...

Tripfiction. I really rather like that.

There are a couple of detective fiction novels set in Dorset in Kindle Daily Deals today. I've never read anything by the author so don't know if they are any good, - but I'm going to try them because they are set in the Isle of Purbeck which is the specific part of Dorset I am from.

The author is Michael Hambling

I now have about 7 books ready. I'm only goimg away Friday to Sunday

There's a Mary Wesley novel which starts on a train... trying to remember the title without going to check.