Hawkshead Grammar School where William Wordsworth carved his name on a desk.

Secrets, code breaking, espionage…the perfect elements for an excellent story all based in fact!

Based on the legend of Cornish fisherman Tom Bawcock, this is the setting of ‘The Mousehole Cat’.

Provided inspiration for George Eliot when writing The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede.

The house where Dickens wrote ‘Nicholas Nickleby’.

The inspiration for Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Top Withens.

Eve Garnett, author of The Family from One End Street, lived in Lewes.

Beautiful time slip novel, set around the Babbington plot.

The setting for Lucy Jago’s novel of the same name and one of the locations used for the 1995 film version of ‘Sense and Sensibility’.

The tomb which inspired Larkin’s poem.

Hugo’s home during his exile on Guernsey.

Eyam, the plague village, has inspired some excellent children’s novels.

The wonderful illustrations of Martin Brown!

Fabulous exhibition of illustration at Taunton Museum.

Visit the world of Tove Jansson!

The perfect place for all lovers of a fairy tale!

The lovely location where Beatrix wrote some of her best loved tales.

Exploring Pemberley as seen in adaptations…

The place which inspired ‘Coram Boy’, ‘Lucky Button’ and ‘Hetty Feather’.

Chawton Cottage, home to Jane for the last eight years of her life.