Inspired Traveller’s Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature’s best and brightest authors, movements and moments – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.

Inspired Traveller’s Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature’s best and brightest authors, movements and moments – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.

Travel journalist Sarah Baxter provides comprehensive and atmospheric outlines of the ** history and culture of 25 literary places around the globe**, as well as how they intersect with the ** lives of the authors** and the works that make them significant. ** Full-page colour illustrations** instantly transport you to each location. You’ll find that these places are not just backdrops to the tales told, but characters in their own right.

Travel to the sun-scorched plains of Don Quixote’s La Mancha, roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Cathy and Heathcliff or view Central Park through the eyes of ** J.D. Salinger**’s antihero. Explore the lush and languid backwaters of ** Arundhati Roy**’s Kerala, the imposing precipice of ** Joan Lindsay**’s Hanging Rock and the labyrinthine streets and sewers of ** Victor Hugo**’s Paris.

Delve into this book to discover some of the world’s most fascinating literary places and the novels that celebrate them.