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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.

Travel to the Isle of Wight for Stealing Roses and Heather Cooper

  • Submitted: 19th May 2019

Heather Cooper Stealing Roses is historical fiction set in Cowes.. When a book is set in the past, in Victorian times in the case of …

Travel to Isle of Rum with no Sleep with CL Taylor

  • Submitted: 15th May 2019

Travel with Cally Taylor to the Island of Rum You won't sleep with this novel adventure. Heading up to the isle of Rum might sound…

Travel to Oregon’s Mercy River with Glen Erik Hamilton

  • Submitted: 10th May 2019

In the Badlands of Oregon with Glen Erik Hamilton How do you create a landscape which is a central character in a novel yet is fictional?…

The BookTrail on location! NewcastleNoir tour

  • Submitted: 5th May 2019

There's lots of criminally good books set in  Newcastle upon Tyne and this weekend I've been guiding literary tourists around the city. Real life BookTrails…

Literary locations of Yrsa Sigurdardottir

  • Submitted: 3rd May 2019

Visit the settings of Yrsa Sigurdardottir's Iceland novels Currently starting in her very own Friday Night showcase at Newcastle Noir crime fiction festival. And what better…

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