Contents
- Preface
- 1: ‘I Am Your Storyteller’
- Enid Blyton, Swanage and the Isle of Purbeck, 1940–1960s
- 2: ‘Walk, and Be Merry’
- Wilkie Collins, Plymouth to Lamorna Cove, July and August 1850
- 3: Pilchards to Postcards
- Wilkie Collins & Ithell Colquhoun, Lamorna Cove to Launceston, 1850 and 1950
- 4: Backtracking
- Celia Fiennes, Launceston to Hereford, 1698
- 5: ‘I’ll Be Your Mirror’
- Gerald of Wales, South and Central Wales, March and April 1188
- 6: ‘Lorf? – Why, I Thought I Should ’a Died’
- Edith Somerville & Violet ‘Martin’ Ross, Welshpool to Chester, June 1893
- 7: ‘The Secret Dream’
- J. B. Priestley & Beryl Bainbridge, Birmingham to Liverpool, 1933 and 1983
- 8: ‘The Doncaster Unhappiness’
- Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins, Cumberland to Doncaster, September 1857
- 9: A Wilderness
- Samuel Johnson & James Boswell, Edinburgh to Skye and back, August to November 1773
- 10: Fog on the Tyne
- J. B. Priestley & Beryl Bainbridge, Tyneside to Lincoln and London, 1933 and 1983
- 11: Last Supper
- Everyone. Somewhere. Sometime.
- 12: Larger Than Life
- Charles Dickens, Gad’s Hill to Westminster Abbey, 14 June 1870
- The Company of Great Writers
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Select Bibliography