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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.

Trailing Caoilainn Devoy – Herself Alone in Orange Rain – Tracey Iceton

  • Submitted: 29th September 2017

Herself Alone in Orange Rain tells the story of Caoilainn Devoy who, aged 19, gives up her art course to join the Provisional IRA.  She…

The Lake District with Nick Louth – The Body in the Marsh

  • Submitted: 25th September 2017

Down in the Lake District, there's a Body in the Marsh... Nick Louth makes his way to the BookTrail today for some tough walking in the…

The wonders of Wales – Snow Sisters – Carol Lovekin

  • Submitted: 24th September 2017

There is something particularly fascinating about fictional locations....they might not be real so you can go to visit them on foot, but close your eyes,…

Slaughterford, Wiltshire – The Hiding Places of Katherine Webb

  • Submitted: 21st September 2017

Katherine Webb weaves a magical insight over the setting of her latest novel: The Hiding Places. As you would expect from Katherine Webb, it's a…

A very scilly love Affair – Philipa Ashley

  • Submitted: 18th September 2017

A Very Scilly Love Affair Phillipa Ashley's new book may be called Christmas on the Little Cornish Isles but the setting is very warm  as you can…

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