The Book Lover's Bucket List

Foreword from bestselling author Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Virgin Blue, A Single Thread)Walk along Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, try to push a trolley through the wall of Platform 93/4 at King’s Cross Station, visit Beatrix Potter’s Lake District and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Edinburgh, or explore the Roald Dahl museumTake a walking tour of Birmingham where J.R.R. Tolkien grew up, and whose industrial smoky air inspired the hellscape of Mordor. Visit the University of London's Senate House, whose imposing Art Deco architecture served as the real-life inspiration behind George Orwell's Ministry of Truth.  Color destination photographs and illustrations from the British Library collectionsCaroline Taggart is the bestselling author of I Used to Know That