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.

• A Side Quest for These Times
  This is a quiet side project born of restlessness. The kind that comes when the world feels cracked and too many people are panicking or numbing or latching onto certainty dressed up as clarity. As I speak with people from different countries and cultures, I can feel them searching for direction and clarity, inspiration and… Read more: A Side Quest for These Times
• 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