Britain by the Book A Curious Tour of Our Literary Landscape 1st Edition by Oliver Tearle ISBN 1473666015 978-1473666016

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ISBN 10: 1473666015 

ISBN 13: 978-1473666016

Author: Oliver Tearle

 What caused Dickens to leap out of bed one night and walk 30 miles from London to Kent?
How did a small town on the Welsh borders become the second-hand bookshop capital of the world?
Why did a jellyfish persuade Evelyn Waugh to abandon his suicide attempt in North Wales?
A multitude of curious questions are answered in Britain by the Book, a fascinating travelogue with a literary theme, taking in unusual writers’ haunts and the surprising places that inspired some of our favourite fictional locations. We’ll learn why Thomas Hardy was buried twice, how a librarian in Manchester invented the thesaurus as a means of coping with depression, and why Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 during the Second World War. The map of Britain that emerges is one dotted with interesting literary stories and bookish curiosities.

Table of contents: 

1.  The Disappearing ‘Round Table’ of John O’Groats 
2. A Bad Poet at Loch Ericht 
3. The Bard of Dundee 
4. Futuristic Golf at St Andrews 
5. Ettrick, Scottish Borders 
6. Alloway, Ayrshire 
7. Great Scott at Abbotsford House 
8. The Goatherd-Poet of Jarrow 
9. Whitby and the Birth of Dracula 
10. Shandy Hall 
11. The Prophetess of Knaresborough 
12. York’s Poetry Window 
13. A Potter at Hill Top 
14. A Romantic from Cockermouth 
15. Bradford’s Great Literary Son 
16. Look Back at Morecambe 
17. Haworth: Home of the Brontës 
18. Knutsford to Cranford 
19. Having Words in Manchester 
20. Herman Melville in Liverpool 
21. The Novelist of the Potteries
22. Samuel Johnson’s Uttoxeter Penance 
23. Robin of… Barnsdale? 
24. Lawrence of Eastwood 
25. A Mousetrap at Nottingham 
26. Larkin in Loughborough 
27. God’s Gift to Coventry 
28. Warwickshire… Somewhere 
29. The Woman from Stratford 
30. The Bird and Baby of Oxford 
31. Binsey Treacle Mine 
32. Dr Fell of Longworth 
33. Britannia of Cliveden 
34. Bletchley’s Major Claim to Fame 
35. A Cottage in Chalfont St Giles 
36. Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire 
37. Old Etonians 
38. Lost in Windsor 
39. Dark and Stormy at Knebworth 
40. The Book of St Albans 
41. A Pilgrimage to Bedford Jail 
42. Norfolk’s Beauty 
43. The Dunwich Horror 
44. The Wise Man of Manningtree 
45. Letters from Mayfair 
46. The Lion of Fleet Street 
47. The Poet of Newgate 
48. A Coward at Hatchards 
49. A Corner of Westminster Abbey
50. Browning in Berkeley Square 
51. Building Brick Lane 
52. Dawn at Billingsgate 
53. A Book on Trial at Bow Street 
54. Shere Folly 
55. Anyone for Tennis at Witley 
56. Gadding about the Place at Higham 
57. Coming to Dover 
58. Apples and Oranges at Etchingham 
59. Young at Hartfield 
60. The Train to Birmingham 
61. A Ludlow Lad 
62. King of Hay-on-Wye 
63. Drowning in Denbighshire 
64. The Bus to Rhossilli 
65. The Welsh Legends of Hergest 
66. Asleep in the Malvern Hills 
67. Remembering Adlestrop 
68. The Imaginary Monk of Bristol 
69. Folly at Fonthill Abbey 
70. Writing Stonehenge 
71. Selborne, Naturally 
72. Two Poems from Winchester 
73. A Poet on Trial in Chichester 
74. Garibaldi at Farringford 
75. Hardy’s Wessex? 
76. My Heart is in Stinsford 
77. Fantastic Bournemouth
78. Romantics at Nether Stowey 
79. Bath Time 
80. Mother Hubbard of Yealmpton 
81. Strange Omens in Gittisham 
82. The Riddles of Exeter 
83. Manderley and Menabilly 
84. Round the Table at Tintagel

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