London Tours and Literary Trails

Many buildings, places, sights (and sites!) intimately associated with writers throughout the ages still exist and can be visited - from Walter Ralegh, William Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys, and Dr Johnson to Carlyle, Dickens, Marx, Rimbaud, T S Eliot, as well as contemporary writers such as Ian McEwan and Alan Hollinghurst.

London tours

This vast, enlivening history stretches back over 700 years to the 13th and 14th centuries and writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Malory and the printer William Caxton, who in 1477 produced the first printed book in England on his printing press close by Westminster Abbey.

Over the coming weeks and months we will be posting a series of walks, guides and London trails.

NOW AVAILABLE!
London: City of Words, the literary companion to the city by David Caddy and Westrow Cooper.

London: City of Words provides an in-depth guide to the history of writing in London, how the city has influenced successive generations of writers and how those writers have incorporated elements of the city within their work. Read more here

London literary trails

NEW! A brief guide to IAN FLEMING, CREATOR OF JAMES BOND, in London.

IRIS MURDOCH LONDON WALKS
London becomes a charged landscape, electrified by currents of ideas and imagery bubbling up through the plots in Iris Murdoch's London novels – that’s what we are in pursuit of in this series of walks. Read more

18th CENTURY LONDON
Follow these links for a tour of the most important literary locations relating to 18th century London

• Mozart in London
• Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
• Dr Samuel Johnson and 17 Gough Square
• Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
• 'Perdita' Mary Robinson
• St James's and James Boswell

Private guided sightseeing tours
thewordtravels offers private and group guided sightseeing tours, within and beyond London, throughout the year.

For further details, please Contact us about London tours

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