Inspired by the discovery of his childhood copy of Treasure Island, The Mail on Sunday's Frank Barrett embarks on a literary quest around Britain, from Eliot's East Coker to Austen's Bath, Winnie-the-Pooh's Hartfield to Dracula's Whitby. Armed with a lifetime of reading and his National Trust membership, Frank is on a personal odyssey through the Britain that has inspired so many writers to capture it in lines or verse, the homes they lived in, the museums that remember them. There will be rain, there will be truculent tour guides, there will be satnav misdemeanours (there may even be tuberculosis), but Frank will carry on regardless. Where? To the lighthouse...
- ISBN10 0749578130
- ISBN13 9780749578138
- Publish Date 1 May 2016 (first published 1 September 2015)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 12 April 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher AA Publishing
- Imprint Automobile Association
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English