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Authors take us on journeys and invite us to settings and places we might not have experienced before. Seeing a place through an author’s eyes is wonderful – visit a castle or a gothic setting, travel back in time and discover the joys of literary travel.

Travel via book means you can be an armchair traveller or one in real life. Here, the Literary Travel Agency guide take you on a journey fuelled with wanderlust.

Literary Locations in Venice with books by Philip Gwynne Jones

  • Submitted: 4th April 2019

Books set in Italy with Philip Gwynne Jones If you want to travel to Venice from the comfort of your armchair, or have been and…

One Summer in Paris with Sarah Morgan

  • Submitted: 1st April 2019

It's almost summer....and it's time for One Summer in Paris with Sarah Morgan . She invited The BookTrail over to Paris for some croissants, book…

From Dorset via Scotland to Iceland – Tracy Buchanan’s Family Secret

  • Submitted: 29th March 2019

Tracy Buchanan on a literary wander... The Family Secret is the latest novel by author Tracy Buchanan and it takes the reader to more than…

The Berwick of Sunwise with Helen Steadman

  • Submitted: 26th March 2019

Author Helen Steadman takes readers to Sunwise's setting of Berwick Interested in reading about the witch trials of Newcastle upon Tyne? Perhaps lesser known than…

Literary locations of Dinah Jefferies

  • Submitted: 22nd March 2019

When travelling to Asia, there's one author in particular who has evoked a series of places and locations in her work. Dinah Jefferies was born…

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