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A collection of book reviews, literary travel journeys and best books set in posts

Literary journeys – Look here for books set in a whole range of locations and settings grouped together

BookTrail of the Month – the best book(trail) an author has taken us on

Literary Packages – what are the best books with a strong sense of setting or location for each month?

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Revisiting Literary Friends – Agatha Christie

  • Submitted: 2nd August 2015

Books often take you places you never would have gone before. Agatha Christie for me is one such author who has taken me to places I really wish did exist…

Train travel in books

  • Submitted: 28th July 2015

With the literary train pulling into the last station of the @transworldbooks booktrail tour, train travel via a book is  the new way to travel! There’s sometimes a murder, sometimes a little…

Literary locations – Durham

  • Submitted: 20th July 2015

Think of Durham and what do you see? A lovely flowing river, a city steeped in history (mining and railways) and tradition, a top university, cobbled streets and a grand…

Tuck in to a literary feast!

  • Submitted: 17th July 2015

Books and Food – what else can we say? What else is there to say quite frankly? Here at the booktrail, we eat books. Devour them. Even love to sniff them…

Booktrailers unite! Jennifer Barclay – author and ultimate traveller

  • Submitted: 15th July 2015

Author and traveller Extraordinaire talks to the Booktrail today about books, travel, literary travel and more…. Jen, it’s over to you – Back in 2001 when I’d recently come to…

Featured Book

The Swell

1910. 1970s :In the middle of a severe storm two sisters rescue a mysterious man from a shipwreck.

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