Read your way around the world.

Passport to Literature is a growing collection of beautifully curated reading guides that invite you to explore the world through books. Each guide focuses on a city, region, or country—connecting you to local authors, stories set in place, independent bookshops, libraries, and literary landmarks.

Whether you’re planning a trip, dreaming of one, or just love discovering places through the page, these one-page guides offer a rich and accessible way to see the world differently.

From the neon dreamscapes of Tokyo to the windswept coasts of Cornwall, from the cafés of Paris to the sunlit stones of Malta—each destination is shaped not just by geography, but by imagination.

This is slow travel for the literary mind. A suitcase full of stories. A passport stamped in fiction and memory.

Download a guide. Pack a book. Travel by story.

• Reading Weekend 2025
  🗺️ Location This year’s reading retreat took place in a city I chose specifically because I had no interest in it. No pressure to explore, no cultural guilt – just a quiet space with a kettle, a bed, and enough amenities to get by. Perfect. Oh and a Marks & Spencer for the perfect hotel room-nic. IYKYK. It… Read more: Reading Weekend 2025
• Bonus Link: A Thousand Years in Kyoto
  The Atlantic: What Murasaki Shikibu Saw This essay revisits the world of Murasaki Shikibu, the 11th-century author of The Tale of Genji, often called the world’s first novel. It reflects on how her writing still echoes through Kyoto’s landscapes and cultural imagination a thousand years later. A work trip takes me to Japan later this year.… Read more: Bonus Link: A Thousand Years in Kyoto
• Books & Journeys: August Links
  August invites us to explore – whether via open roads or open pages. This issue shares accessible resources that blend travel with literary insight: one essay that reimagines how we journey, a blog pairing destinations and stories, and an immersive travel-writing platform. All freely accessible, all rich with the wanderlust of words. Let’s begin the… Read more: Books & Journeys: August Links