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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.

London – PAULA HAWKINS – Take a train ride with a difference!

  • Submitted: 10th January 2015

We've clambered on board the 8.04 slow train from Ashbury to Euston today as, well, this is where we arranged to meet the girl on the…

Paris – KATE BEAUFOY – Liberty Silk weaves its magic..

  • Submitted: 18th December 2014

Today is the day that the lady who wrote this wonderful book comes round to Booktrail towers in her Liberty Silk dress and dainty shoes…

Java – ISABEL WOLFF – A literary journey into the past

  • Submitted: 10th December 2014

Today we have Isabel Wolff coming over!  We've prepared a little festive feast so it's all very exciting and atmospheric. What a lovely chance to…

London – ANNE BLANKMAN – YA thriller Queen

  • Submitted: 23rd November 2014

It's pitch black and the cloak of darkness wraps around my shoulders as I hurry along the cobble stones, the empty echoes of my boots firing…

London – GOLDSBORO BOOKS – Lord Harry of Goldsboro

  • Submitted: 12th November 2014

Booksellers are book ambassadors  - diplomatic when people ask funny questions in bookshops such as ' do you have the one with the blue cover?',…

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