The Book Lover's Bucket List: A Tour of Great British Literature
Exploring the gardens, monuments, museums, and churches with walks both urban and rural, from the Brontë 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 color 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.

There are gardens, monuments, museums, churches, and a surprising quantity of stained glass. There are walks both urban and rural, where you can explore real landscapes or imaginary haberdasher’s shops. There‘s the club where Buck’s Fizz was invented and a pub where you can eat Sherlock’s Steak & Ale Pie. And there’s a railway station where you can stroke the muzzle of one of the world’s most famous and endearing bears.

Wherever you are in the United Kingdom, you're never far from something associated with a good book.
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The Book Lover's Bucket List: A Tour of Great British Literature
Exploring the gardens, monuments, museums, and churches with walks both urban and rural, from the Brontë 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 color 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.

There are gardens, monuments, museums, churches, and a surprising quantity of stained glass. There are walks both urban and rural, where you can explore real landscapes or imaginary haberdasher’s shops. There‘s the club where Buck’s Fizz was invented and a pub where you can eat Sherlock’s Steak & Ale Pie. And there’s a railway station where you can stroke the muzzle of one of the world’s most famous and endearing bears.

Wherever you are in the United Kingdom, you're never far from something associated with a good book.
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The Book Lover's Bucket List: A Tour of Great British Literature

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

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

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

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Exploring the gardens, monuments, museums, and churches with walks both urban and rural, from the Brontë 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 color 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.

There are gardens, monuments, museums, churches, and a surprising quantity of stained glass. There are walks both urban and rural, where you can explore real landscapes or imaginary haberdasher’s shops. There‘s the club where Buck’s Fizz was invented and a pub where you can eat Sherlock’s Steak & Ale Pie. And there’s a railway station where you can stroke the muzzle of one of the world’s most famous and endearing bears.

Wherever you are in the United Kingdom, you're never far from something associated with a good book.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780712353243
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Publication date: 10/01/2021
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword Tracy Chevalier 9

Introduction 11

1 London

Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey Geoffrey Chaucer Edmund Spenser Others 14

Theatreland Ivor Novello Noël Coward Harold Pinter 16

The Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 18

Another Tribute to Sherlock Holmes 21

Jeeves and Wooster's Mayfair P. G. Wodehouse 22

The Café Royal Oscar Wilde 24

Albany Lord Byron, Ernest Worthing and Others 26

'The African's' Tomb, Tottenham Court Road Olaudah Equiano 27

The 'Ministry of Truth', Malet Street George Orwell 30

An Abolitionist's Plaque Mary Prince 32

The Dickens Museum Charles Dickens 33

Dickens's London Charles Dickens 35

Bunhill Fields William Blake 37

Dr Johnson's House Samuel Johnson 39

Pepys's London Samuel Pepys 41

Hawksmoor's Churches Peter Ackroyd 43

Brick Lane Monica Ali 45

Southwark Cathedral Chaucer Shakespeare and Others 46

Shakespeare's Globe William Shakespeare 48

Angela Carter's South London Angela Carter 50

A Different View of Brixton C. L. R. James Bernardine Evaristo 53

Post-Windrush West London Andrea Levy Sam Selvon 54

Paddington Station Michael Bond 56

Primrose Hill/Regent's Park Dodie Smith A. A. Milne 57

Another Zoo Connection 59

St Pancras Station John Betjeman 60

NW Zadie Smith 61

Keats House, Hampstead John Keats 62

London's Victorian Cemeteries Radclyffe Hall George Eliot Others 64

Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham Horace Walpole 67

2 Southwestern England

A Tour of Cornwall Daphne Du Maurier Winston Graham 70

Literary Stained Glass 72

Dartmoor Arthur Conan Doyle 73

Agatha Christie's Devon Agatha Christie 74

'Doone Valley', Exmoor R. D. Blackmore 76

Westward Ho! Charles Kingsley 78

Coleridge Cottage, Nether Stowey Samuel Taylor Coleridge 79

Jane Austen's Bath Jane Austen 81

Another View of Bath Mary Shelly 83

Burnt Norton to East Coker T. S. Eliot 84

Lyme Regis Jane Austen John Fowles 86

Dorchester Thomas Hardy 89

3 Southern England

Farringford House, Isle of Wight Alfred Lord Tennyson 92

Emsworth Museum P. G. Wodehouse 93

Jane Austen's House, Chawton Jane Austen 94

Brighton Graham Greene 97

Monk's House, Rodmell Leonard Virginia Woolf 98

Charleston, West Firle The Bloomsburys 100

Literary Gardening 102

Ashdown Forest A. A. Milne 103

Bateman's, Burwash Rudyard Kipling 104

Lamb House, Rye Henry James E. F. Benson Others 106

Literary Wining and Dining 108

Canterbury Geofrey Chaucer Christopher Marlowe 109

Dickens's Kent Charles Dickens 111

4 Central England

St Giles' Church, Stoke Poges Thomas Gray 116

Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, Great Missenden Roald Dahl 117

Adlestrop Edward Thomas 119

Christ Church College, Oxford Lewis Carroll 120

Philip Pullman's Oxford Philip Pullman 122

Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry C. S. Lewis 123

Madresfield Court, Malvern Evelyn Waugh 125

The Cowper and Newton Museum, Olney William Cowper John Newton 127

Bedford and Surrounds John Bunyan 128

Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence George Bernard Shaw 130

Shakespeare's Stratford William Shakespeare 132

A Shakespearean Pub Crawl 134

Some Shakespearean Locations 136

Tolkien's Birmingham J. R. R. Tolkien 137

D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum, Eastwood D. H. Lawrence 139

A Disenchanted Village 141

Newstead Abbey Lord Byron 142

5 Eastern England

Stamford George Eliot 147

Grantchester Rupert Brooke 148

Literary North Norfolk W. H. Auden Stephen Spender Others 150

Black Beauty Country Anna Sewell 152

6 Northern England

Knutsford Elizabeth Gaskell 156

Lyme Park and Chatsworth House Jane Austen 158

Manchester's Landmark Poetry Lemn Sissay 160

Mexborough Ted Hughes 162

Hull Philip Larkin Winifred Holtby 165

The Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth Charlotte Emily Anne Brontë 166

Literature Out of Doors 169

Shandy Hall, Coxwold Laurence Sterne 170

Walney Island The Reverend W. Awdry 171

Hill Top, Near Sawrey Beatrix Potter 174

Dove Cottage, Grasmere William Wordsworth 176

A Harry Potter Odyssey 178

Whitby Bram Stoker 180

Sunderland Lewis Carroll 182

7 Wales and Northern Ireland

Tintern Abbey William Dorothy Wordsworth 186

Laugharne Dylan Thomas 187

Plas Newydd, Llangollen Lady Eleanor Butler The Honourable Sarah Ponsonby 190

Lough Neagh Seamus Heaney 192

Middle Sister's Belfast Anna Burns 195

8 Scotland

Ecclefechan Thomas Carlyle 198

Alloway and Dumfries Robert Burns 200

Abbotsford Sir Walter Scott 203

Kirriemuir J. M. Barrie 205

Some Scottish Villages 207

An Edinburgh Walk Robert Louis Stevenson Others 208

Dulce el Decorum Est 210

Away the Crow Road Iain Banks 212

'Dunsinane' Hill and Birnam Wood William Shakespeare 214

List of Illustrations

Index

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