You've read the book, now take the holiday: our literary special.
Tourists have long flocked to places made famous by writers and their novels. Author Giles Foden looks at the lasting link between literature and holidays.
From Bath to Saigon and from the Brontës to Irvine Welsh, Desmond Balmer does it by the book.
Dylan Thomas took the scenic route in life as in literature. Peter Lennon follows a picturesque trail.
The books of Lawrence and Gerald Durrell made Corfu famous. Sixty years after they left, Ben Mallalieu finds out how much remains of their enchanted island.
John Steinbeck was born 100 years ago in California, the land he called Eden. Richard Knight makes a west coast pilgrimage.
The importance of being Ernest
Hemingway returned to the marshland of the Veneto years after serving there with the Red Cross. Thomas Rees hears a few fishy tales of a life of drink and ducks.
The raw landscape of Newfoundland sets the tone for the film of E Annie Proulx's The Shipping News. But Sarah Tucker finds a softer side to the untamed natives.
