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.
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.
Thursday, 30 November 2023 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
"if you understand this Kensington house you understand London"
Friday, 01 December 2023 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Friday)
"a sojourn into a lost city – an Atlantis"
Saturday, 02 December 2023 @ 11 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....
Sunday, 03 December 2023 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
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.
Sunday, 03 December 2023 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Sunday)
Grab your deerstalker and magnifying glass, we're going sleuthing...
Sunday, 03 December 2023 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
An affectionate celebration of the real places behind this timeless classic. A revealing virtual tour of the City Dickens knew so well.
Wednesday, 06 December 2023 @ 11.30 am (This walk goes every Wednesday)
"in 20 years of London Walks this is the best one I've ever been on"
Saturday, 16 December 2023 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
An affectionate Yuletide offering from the glory days of the Great Detective and his creator.
Saturday, 23 December 2023 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
On the trail of the great novelist...
Tuesday, 26 December 2023 @ 10.45 am
We walk with Mrs Dalloway. Walk her London. See it with her eyes.
Sunday, 07 January 2024 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
On the trail of Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Lord Peter Wimsey... Guided by Richard IV
Sunday, 14 January 2024 @ 7 pm
Sunday, 28 January 2024 @ 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
Sunday, 04 February 2024 @ 2.30 pm
Sunday, 18 February 2024 @ 7 pm
'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
Sunday, 03 March 2024 @ 2.30 pm
Oh come all ye Baker Street Irregulars. Guided by Audio-book narrator Richard IV
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.
The best Dickens Christmas Festival in the world!
"as English as Buckingham Palace or The Tower of London"
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
Sherlock Holmes Saves the Nation! The world of the Diogenes Club in Westminster and St James's. Guided by Richard IV
"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
"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
"a place of poverty and political exiles and refugees and revolutionaries"
Sunday morning walk for all ages...
The Write Stuff – Welcome to London Walks' Saturday evening literary soirée!
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…