Exploring the gardens, monuments, museums, and churches with walks both urban and rural, from the Bronte parsonage in Haworth to Zadie Smith's North London and Shakespeare's Stratford, The Book Lover's Bucket List takes you through some 100 wonderfully described literary sites and landscapes, complete with colour destination photographs and illustrations from the British Library collections. Start with Chaucer, Dickens and Larkin in Westminster Abbey. Spend an afternoon at Colliers Wood Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire and take in the lake D. H. Lawrence described as 'all grey and visionary, stretching into the moist, translucent vista of trees and meadow'. Venture south to Cornwall and work your way up to the Scottish Highlands, taking detours to Northern Ireland in the west and Norfolk in the east - or simply drop in on the place nearest to you. Wherever you are in the United Kingdom, you're never far from something associated with a good book.
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Immerse yourself in a land full of literary locations in this tour through the great books of the British Isles. Caroline Taggart's guide to statues, walks both rural and urban, literary homes and vistas which inspired great scenes from our favourite novels is guaranteed to have something for every avid reader.
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Product details

ISBN
9780712353243
Published
2021-06-17
Publisher
British Library Publishing; British Library Publishing
Height
210 mm
Width
150 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
224

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Biographical note

Caroline Taggart worked in publishing as an editor of popular non-fiction for 30 years before writing I Used to Know That, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Her other books include The Book of English Place Names, The Book of London Place Names, How to Greet the Queen (And Other Questions of Modern Etiquette), and A Slice of Britain: Around the Country by Cake.