{"product_id":"9781785781865","title":"Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History","description":"Writers’ relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned \u003ci\u003eLes Misérables\u003c\/i\u003e in an attic in Guernsey and Noël Coward wrote that most English of plays, \u003ci\u003eBlithe Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e, in the Welsh holiday village of Portmeirion. \u003cbr\u003e  Award-winning BBC drama producer Adrian Mourby follows his literary heroes around the world, exploring 50 places where great works of literature first saw the light of day. At each destination – from the Brontës’ Yorkshire Moors to the New York of Truman Capote, Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin to the now-legendary Edinburgh café where J.K. Rowling plotted Harry Potter’s first adventures – Mourby explains what the writer was doing there and describes what the visitor can find today of that great moment in literature. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eRooms of One’s Own\u003c\/i\u003e takes you on a literary journey from the British Isles to Paris, Berlin, New Orleans, New York and Bangkok and unearths the real-life places behind our best-loved works of literature.","brand":"Icon Books, Ltd. UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152618209520,"sku":"9781785781865","price":8.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781785781865_p0.jpg?v=1763729425","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785781865","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}