They say that everyone has a novel inside them. But are you finding yours has got blocked somewhere on its way to your typing fingers?
There are two things we suggest trying. 1) Pack the whole thing in; books are hard. 2) Go and visit the homes of some of history's most brilliant authors in the hope that some of their skill might transfer to you just by standing close to somewhere they once sat, thinking.
We've taken a Google tour round the UK to find the homes of some of the most famous writers who ever lived - but only the dead ones; we're not stalkers. One thing we've learned: Most authors lived in very posh houses, except Rudyard Kipling who lived above a branch of Eat.
A.A. Milne
Location: 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea, SW3 6DT
Agatha Christie
Location: 58 Sheffield Terrace, Holland Park, W8 7NA
Bram Stoker
Location: 18 St Leonard's Terrace, Chelsea, SW3 4QG
C.S. Lewis
Location: The Kilns, Lewis Close, Oxford OX3 8JD
Charles Dickens
Location: 48 Doughty Street, Holborn, WC1N 2LX
Evelyn Waugh
Location: 145 North End Road, Golders Green, NW11 7HT
George Orwell
Location: 50 Lawford Road, Kentish Town, NW5 2LN
Herman Melville
Location: 25 Craven Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 5NT
Ian Fleming
Location: 22 Ebury Street, Belgravia, SW1W 8LW
J.R.R. Tolkien
Location: 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford
James Joyce
Location: 28 Campden Grove, Holland Park, W8 4JQ
Jane Austen
Location: Chawton, Alton, Hampshire GU34 1SD
Kenneth Grahame
Location: 16 Phillimore Place, Holland Park, W8 7BU
Rudyard Kipling
Location: 43 Villiers Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 6NE
Thomas Hardy
Location: 172 Trinity Road, Tooting, SW17 7HT
P.G. Wodehouse
Location: 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, W1K 7EG
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