The rise of the English novel during the 18th century coincided with a growing pride in the landscape of Britain.

If any single book has immortalised the Thames in literature, it’s Three Men in a Boat (1889). 

Author Rosie Whitehouse tells the story of Italo Calvino, one of Italy's greatest novelists.

Mary Shelley's summer on the Golfo dei Poeti was not as idyllic as you might think.

Whether you’re an active outdoors type or more interested in history and culture, there’s plenty to see and do in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

There are many places and features around Oxford that crop up in Lewis Carroll’s books.

Jane Austen lived and wrote in Bath for a number of years.

The name Simon Evans isn’t a household one, but the author, poet and broadcaster would have been well known in his day.

The tiny viallge of Great Bolas is unremarkable – apart from one story.

Three decades of total devotion by a single man forever changed the destiny of more than 50 towns in the regions of Aysén and Chiloé.