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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.

A Lone with liquorice and a great Denmark set thriller

  • Submitted: 18th November 2015

Today we welcome Lone Theils to the Booktrail sofa as she chats about her book Fatal Crossing – Pigerne fra Englandsbåden in Danish. This debut takes…

Cornwall – EMYLIA HALL – Eating Cornish Ice cream on the beach

  • Submitted: 11th November 2015

Today we're talking Cornwall with Emylia Hall, author of The Sea Between Us which tells the story of Robyn Swinton and local boy Jago Winters who…

London – KATHRYN HUGHES – The Letter

  • Submitted: 4th November 2015

Kathryn Hughes is in booktrail towers today. We’ve got her book here to chat and a cake made from an old recipe found in a…

Sweden – CARIN GERHARDSEN – A Swedish smörgåsbord of crime

  • Submitted: 23rd September 2015

If you are a fan of Scandinavian crime fiction, then you need to know about Carin Gerhardsen if you haven't already read her books. Her…

India – VASEEM KHAN – Elephants, food and Mumbai

  • Submitted: 16th September 2015

I’m off to meet a man about an elephant today. Yup, you read that right. I am currently sitting in an Indian restaurant, with the fragrances of…

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