{"id":33317,"date":"2025-07-30T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/33317\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:43:13","slug":"book-inspired-holidays-follow-in-the-footsteps-of-authors-from-agatha-christie-to-marquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/33317\/","title":{"rendered":"Book-inspired holidays: Follow in the footsteps of authors from Agatha Christie to M\u00e1rquez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe world is a book,\u201d 4th century theologian St Augustine is believed to have said, \u201cand those who do not travel read only one page.\u201d But what if the journey and an actual book were combined?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Rejecting checklist-driven tourism, destination book clubs curate escapes that bring together literature lovers in locations that are themselves characters in their respective tales. And appealing to those craving such connection, companies like Books in Places, the Enchanted Book Club and Avalon Waterways, which offers Storyteller cruises, are combining walking tours, debates and discussions, local cuisine and sometimes even meetings or talks with authors and booksellers.<\/p>\n<p>Agatha Christie\u2019s Egypt<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Death on the Nile, by Agatha Christie, was inspired by her time aboard the SS Sudan. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dc30a9a4-bca8-4014-b4b5-a229c6581b66_844cd9eb.jpg\" title=\"Death on the Nile, by Agatha Christie, was inspired by her time aboard the SS Sudan. Photo: Handout\"\/>Death on the Nile, by Agatha Christie, was inspired by her time aboard the SS Sudan. Photo: HandoutThe events in the novel take place against some of the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/magazines\/post-magazine\/travel\/article\/2021583\/visiting-pyramids-heres-what-you-need-know?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">most stunning sites in Egypt<\/a>: Abu Simbel, temples built into a sandstone cliff by Ramses II in the 13th century BC; Karnak, the largest temple ruins in Egypt; and the Old Cataract Hotel (now the Sofitel Legend Old Cataract Aswan), where Christie wrote her Hercule Poirot mystery in a suite overlooking the river.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Cairo &amp; Nile Cruise Reading Holiday, hosted by Friendship Travel and led by a \u201creading-holiday guide\u201d, sets sail on November 1. The nine-night itinerary allows time to read (or re-read) the novel and explore the Pyramids and the Sphinx, Luxor, the Valley of the Kings, Aswan and Cairo, the Egyptian capital.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alternatively, book the Agatha Christie suite on the SS Sudan, which has been restored and now sails between Luxor and Aswan over six days and takes in the sights of Upper Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe world is a book,\u201d 4th century theologian St Augustine is believed to have said, \u201cand those who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[20068,457,20074,20076,20067,20070,20069,309,96,20078,20073,20071,20072,5453,7428,200,20075,19397,20077,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-33317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-agatha-christie","tag-books","tag-cartagena","tag-death-on-the-nile","tag-destination-book-clubs","tag-diana-gabaldon","tag-egypt","tag-england","tag-entertainment","tag-fort-william","tag-gabriel-garcia-marquez","tag-ian-fleming","tag-jamaica","tag-james-bond","tag-literature","tag-scotland","tag-stieg-larsson","tag-stockholm","tag-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}