London Literary Tours
England has produced many great literary figures and many of them called London home. Join us on one of our Literary walking tours of London with our award-winning guides. Our guided tours cover London’s most famous writers, poets, playwrights and characters.
From a Bloomsbury pub walk where you can learn about the likes of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group, Ted Hughes; George Orwell and many more besides. To dedicated walks for your favourite author or playwright.
These tours are a new way to see some of the best sights. You can get a new appreciation for central London, the British Museum, Kings cross, Shakespeare’s Globe, the British Library and many more of Londons locations.
Discover the London of your favourite literary figures and celebrate the English language.
Private tours
We run a ton of private walks. If you want a private Literary Walk – or any other London Walk for that matter – it’s eezy peezy as well. Just give Fiona or Noel a ring on 020 7624 3978 – or email us at[email protected] – and we’ll set it up for you and make it happen.
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Sunday, 16 March 2025 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Sunday)
Grab your deerstalker and magnifying glass, we're going sleuthing...
Shakespeare's and Dickens' Old City
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
A walk, a performance, a clinic in how Shakespeare's lines should be delivered
T. S. Eliot – The Waste Land Tour
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 @ 11.30 am (Click here for more dates)
"in 20 years of London Walks this is the best one I've ever been on"
Kensington***** The Royal Village – 203 Five-Star Reviews
Thursday, 20 March 2025 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
"Kensington specialises in hiding the best of itself"
Charles Dickens's London
Friday, 21 March 2025 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Friday)
"a sojourn into a lost city – an Atlantis"
Shakespeare's London
Saturday, 22 March 2025 @ 11.30 am (This walk goes every Saturday)
Shakespeare's commute – to the lascivious pleasing of the lute, from his home to the Globe, meeting his friends and enemies en route....
Sherlock Holmes - Virtual Tour
Sunday, 23 March 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
'The Game's Afoot!' Follow the fascinating adventures of Holmes and Watson (and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) around London's West End. Guided by Richard IV
Agatha Christie & Dorothy L. Sayers – the Virtual Tour
Sunday, 30 March 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
On the trail of Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Lord Peter Wimsey... Guided by Richard IV
Jane Austen's London
Sunday, 06 April 2025 @ 11.30 am (Click here for more dates)
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Jane Austen devotee in possession of the good fortune of a couple of free hours must be in want of this walk"
What Ho, Jeeves! – The London of P.G. Wodehouse
Saturday, 19 April 2025 @ 11 am
Over a century since the immortal Jeeves first shimmered into view, spiffing traces of the Master’s favourite corner of London can still be found…
Alfred Hitchcock in London – Virtual Tour
Sunday, 11 May 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
The Master of Suspense worked with many great stars, and here we visit one of his all-time favourites: London! Guided by Richard IV
Mrs Dalloway's London – the 100th Anniversary
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 @ 9.50 am
We walk with Mrs Dalloway. Walk her London. See it with her eyes.
P G Wodehouse in London - Virtual Tour
Sunday, 25 May 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
On the trail of Jeeves, Bertie Wooster, Lord Emsworth and many other classic Wodehouse characters in Mayfair and Piccadilly. Guided by Richard IV
Alfred Hitchcock's London – More than 39 Steps!
Saturday, 07 June 2025 @ 2.30 pm
The Master of Suspense worked with many great stars, and here we visit one of his all-time favourites: London!
Sherlock Holmes Saves the Nation!
Sunday, 08 June 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
Sherlock Holmes Saves the Nation! The world of the Diogenes Club in Westminster and St James's. Guided by Richard IV
Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley in Somers Town
Sunday, 17 August 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"a place of poverty and political exiles and refugees and revolutionaries"
Tours available upon request
We run a ton of private walks. If you to go on any of the walks below, it’s eezy peezy as well. Just give Fiona, Peter, Niamh or Mary a ring on 020 7624 3978 – or email us at [email protected] and we’ll set it up for you and make it happen.
Charles Dickens Christmas Festival - Castle, Cathedral, Carols, Costumed Characters, Parade, Reindeer, Guaranteed Snow
The best Dickens Christmas Festival in the world!
Agatha Christie's London - A London Walks Special Anniversary Virtual Tour
"as English as Buckingham Palace or The Tower of London"
Harry Potter's London
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
Jane Austen's London – the London of 1809
A Jane Austen tour based on an 1809 guidebook to London
Sense & Sensibility – Jane Austen in London
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Jane Austen devotee in possession of the good fortune of a couple of free hours must be in want of this virtual tour" Guided by Kevin
Virtual Walk: Sherlock Holmes & Conan Doyle at Christmas
An affectionate Yuletide offering from the glory days of the Great Detective and his creator...
The London of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol
An affectionate celebration of the real places behind this timeless classic. A revealing virtual tour of the City Dickens knew so well.
Kensington Sights & Secrets – Virtual Tour
"If you understand this Kensington house you understand London" Comes with a £9.99 gift. Yes, it's free – no catch, no strings attached. Guided by David
Agatha Christie & Dorothy Sayers – Poirot, Miss Marple & Lord Peter Wimsey
On the trail of Poirot, Miss Marple & Lord Peter Wimsey...
Sherlock Holmes Goes Home
Oh come all ye Baker Street Irregulars. Guided by Audio-book narrator Richard IV
London Film, TV & Book Trail for Kids & Grown-up Kids
Sunday morning walk for all ages...
The Sherlock Holmes Christmas Walk
We follow the crisscrossing paths of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson as they solve their only original Christmas-time case, and Arthur Conan Doyle as he reaches a crisis in his professional life.
Bloomsbury – Literary London & Liquid Refreshment
The Write Stuff – Welcome to London Walks' Saturday evening literary soirée!
"Bond, James Bond" – The London of 007 & Ian Fleming
"Shaken not stirred"