Award-winning BBC drama producer and travel journalist Adrian Mourby follows his literary heroes around the world, exploring 50 places where great works of literature first saw the light of day. At each destination – from the Brontës’ Yorkshire Moors to the New York of Truman Capote – Mourby explains what the writer was doing there and describes what the visitor can find today of that great moment in literature.
Rooms of One’s Own takes you on a literary journey and unearths the real-life places behind our best-loved works revealing that writers’ relationships with their surroundings are seldom straight forward.
Books will be on sale from Waterstones.