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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.

Jo Baldwin talks France, setting of A Good Friend

  • Submitted: 15th February 2019

Author Jo Baldwin has set A Good Friend, in France. She's keen to take us there, so let's head off  to Languedoc where the book…

Confessions of a Literary Traveller – Johana Gustawsson

  • Submitted: 13th February 2019

Authors are literary travellers and not just in their books. They attend book fairs, author events and all kinds of writing and reading festivals up…

Dreaming of Tuscany, with author Trevor Williams

  • Submitted: 10th February 2019

Dreaming of Tuscany? Trevor Williams is your ultimate literary guide.... He writes novels with such a great and immersive sense of place, that if you…

Malaya with The Night Tiger and Yangsze Choo

  • Submitted: 7th February 2019

Author Yangsze Choo takes you  on a journey of Chinese mythology Very excited to have the author of  The Night Tiger on The BookTrail today.…

Jane Harper’s Literary locations in The Lost Man

  • Submitted: 4th February 2019

Author Jane Harper's Australia is a literary delight First there was The Dry, then Force of Nature and now The Lost Man has wandered onto…

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