Top 35 must-see locations for book lovers - with Brontë sisters' home topping list

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Kindle Storyteller Award, celebrating the best self-published stories. Darren Hardy, author and editorial programmes manager at Amazon, said: “It is such an exciting time to be in the independent publishing space.“Iconic locations such as Shakespeare’s Globe and the home of the Brontë sisters hold such cultural importance, and it’s great to see them feature so prominently in our research.”Professor Elleke Boehmer, a leading figure in the field of English Literature at the University of Oxford, added: “The British Isles are rich in vital literary traditions that extend across time, from the medieval period onwards, and across space, ramifying throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.“In Britain, you almost get the sense in some literary places of the land, trees and surroundings pregnant, still, with the writer's presence, or a sense of how they have interacted with the context – like Coleridge's Quantock hills.“The walks that he made through those hills still exist today, and as we walk them we can imagine him pacing out the lines of his poetry – like “The Ancient Mariner”, looking out onto the Bristol Channel at the passing ships from around the world.“Some of my favourite literary sites, like Coleridge's Nether Stowey, the Brontës' Haworth, or DH Lawrence's Eastwood, also feature truly wonderful and significant houses where the rooms in which the writers were born, or wrote some of their key works, are preserved for all generations.”The study also revealed the nation’s favourite British writers – with Charles Dickens, who can count “Oliver Twist” and “A Christmas Carol” among his works, coming out on top.He was followed by Charlotte Brontë and George Orwell – while Emily Brontë and Virginia Woolf,.