This is a walking guide through the lives, loves, homes and haunts of novelists, poets and playwrights both historic and recent.
Ideal for visitors, residents, book-lovers and historians alike, this book covers 25 carefully researched walks encompassing a vast range of ground, from central areas such as Covent Garden, Westminster and the City to the leafier suburbs of Richmond and Hampstead. Birthplaces, past and present homes and burial places of eminent writers are visited, as are the places that inspired much great literature.