The Book Lover's Bucket List: A Tour of Great British Literature

Brought as a gift for my mother in law, she’s really enjoyed it

I love this book, it takes you on a journey throughout the U.K. to places of literary interest. It is well researched the authors selected for the book are from a wide variety of genres. It’s written well and wonderfully illustrated with photographs and sketches. The only trouble is it is becoming expensive purchasing the recommended books and visiting the places from the book!

My fiend is an ardent book lover and travels the country so ideal for him

Wonderful collection of location based British writers.

Book arrived when promised, well packaged and in good condition. I am looking forward to reading it. It will make a great way to see the country for a book lover.

All the usual ‘literary greats’ were there ( Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen), plus some less well known but, in their way, equally interesting and influential.A lovely book for browsing. Beautifully written and illustrated.

An easy five stars. A guide for booklovers, booktrailers and book people of all kinds who love to delve deeper into books and the lives of writers. The classics are all here such as Dickens and Chaucer but this book brings you Ali Smith and more modern tales and the mix is simply divine. There's so much to see and do and it would be wonderful to do this trail for real. Ah the dream! I was surprised I had been to so many already but there are so many gems I have yet to visit for real when we can. For now, however it was wonderful to do them via books and in my imagination.I do love a book with photos, pictures and writing too and this was nicely done to really make both the books and the places pop. There is a lot to like here and so much reading and travel potential. That perhaps is the only downside to the book - that you will be buying more books and travelling more as a result. Oh the pressures until lockdown is lifted! That just means this book is ideal for preparation for the real event - as we all know literary travel provides huge joy and adventure in its own right.I had so many books and ideas of places that I thought the book should have covered but then you can't please everyone can you and there are bound to be places that you feel should be there. Just means there's room for a 'sequel' Yippee! Book trails all around the UK. Oh to do that for real - what a roadtrip that would be!Imagine having this on your coffee table and delving in from time to time to literary travel and dream all things bookish? Yes please!

This is an excellent book, well written and nicely illustrated. But it is very London centric. Chapter 1 is London, pages 13 to 68. Southwestern England and Southern England take you to page 114. The book ends at page 215. Wales and Northern Ireland get 12 pages between them. There is also no map which would be helpful.Despite that still very enjoyable, just a little limited.

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