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A LITERARY BREAK

Follow in the footsteps of some of our best loved authors and playwrights on one of these literary breaks.

HEMINGWAY’S PARIS

HEMINGWAY lived, loved, caroused and wrote in Paris. His novel A Moveable Feast tells of his time there and you can sip coffee in cafes he visited or enjoy cocktails in the Ritz, where he once ordered 50 martinis.

INSIDER TIP: Visit bookshop Shakespeare and Company, Rue de la Bucherie, where Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald congregated.

DETAILS: Book Hotel d’Angleterre (above). Hemingway and first wife Hadley stayed in 1921. Doubles from £164 (hotel-dangleterre.com). Returns from £58 (eurostar.com).

CULTURAL CARIBBEAN

IAN FLEMING wrote his first Bond novel Casino Royale in Jamaica in the bungalow he built and called Goldeneye. Truman Capote, Cecil Beaton and Noel Coward visited. Fleming’s desk is in the house, where you can stay — for a price.

INSIDER TIP: Visit Coward’s house, Firefly. He fell for Jamaica while staying at Goldeneye. Coward loved Firefly so much he was buried there.

DETAILS: Seven nights in Fleming’s villa from £7,900 per person B&B with flights or seven nights in a onebedroom ocean-front villa B&B from £2,700 with flights (scottdunn.com).

SHAKESPEARE’S SECRETS

SEE where Shakespeare spent his formative years, visit Anne Hathaway’s cottage, where he courted his wife, and watch one of his plays at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

INSIDER TIP: Book tickets for the latest production Cymbeline, until October 15 (rsc.org.uk).

DETAILS: The Arden is conveniently located behind the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Rooms start from £175 with breakfast (theardenhotel stratford.com).