I love armchair and literary travel. I love exploring different parts of our world – and entirely new ones. It’s one of my favourite parts of reading, along with experiencing part of someone else’s life, which is the best part of reading. So there are a lot of books that have a strong sense of place, one that felt homely or exciting or new or interesting… but that for whatever reason made me want to visit it again and again. Some of these books are about travel, others are about a wonderful place that is visited once or that even may be home. Others are about a sense of place – the history and feeling imbued in a country because of the history of the humans who have inhabited it. All are different, but they are all wonderfully evocative in their own ways. These are a few such books.
Little House In the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Borders by Thomas King and Natasha Donovan
The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig
A House In the Country by Jocelyn Playfair
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
A Year In Provence by Peter Mayle
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
That’s it for me this week! Have you read any of these? Did you find that the setting stuck with you? I’d love to see which books you found most evocative of a place or culture – feel free to share some recommendations in the comments!
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