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Authorsonlocation

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.

Peter James talks crime and capers

  • Submitted: 6th April 2016

Very excited today as I'm only sitting in a police car with two pieces of cake on my knee waiting to chat with Peter James.…

In Her Wake – Amanda Jennings

  • Submitted: 31st March 2016

Tonight was going to be a quiet night, until a few people (mentioning no names Amanda Jennings and Victoria Goldman started tweeting about gin as…

Rosa Fedele on painting and evoking settings in fiction

  • Submitted: 23rd March 2016

We welcome Rosa Fedele to the blog today who wrote the captivating novel The Red Door. It's all so evocative and visual so interesting to…

Chatting Chinese with Andy Smart – author of ‘Just Turn Left at the Mountain’

  • Submitted: 16th March 2016

We love language here. Love the idea of learning a new language or reading a book in a foreign tongue. Thank goodness there are literary translators who…

Canadian authors and literary locations in Canada – Elaine Cougler

  • Submitted: 13th March 2016

It's Sunday and the perfect time to sit down with a lovely author who has tea and pancakes all ready on the table. Elaine has written…

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