Literary travel, bookstores, trains, notebooks, and the stories cities leave behind
Booked & Boarded
A recurring literary travel series about books, transit, cafés, bookstores, and the quiet observations collected along the way. Part city diary, part reading journal, Booked & Boarded explores what it feels like to move slowly through a place.
Literary Guides
Thoughtful literary travel guides exploring through bookstores, cafés, neighbourhood walks, hidden corners, and slow itineraries for readers, writers, and curious travellers.
Literary Travel
A collection of essays, reflections, and destination stories exploring the spaces where books and travel intersect. From hidden bookstores and literary cities to notebooks filled on trains and afternoons spent reading in unfamiliar cafés, these pieces focus on the emotional texture of place rather than sightseeing alone.
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5 Days in and Around Shanghai for Readers
Shanghai is often introduced through its skyline. Photographs of the Bund and Pudong dominate travel brochures, presenting the city as a symbol of modern China and rapid transformation. Spend a few days here and another Shanghai begins to emerge. Plane…
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Booked & Boarded: Shanghai
On my first evening in Shanghai, I found myself beside the Huangpu River watching ferries move between the banks. Around me, tourists lifted phones for photographs before drifting back into the crowd, commuters surfaced from the metro and headed into…
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Best Bookshops in Melbourne for Readers, Slow Browsing and Literary Travellers
Melbourne has one of the strongest independent bookshop cultures in Australia, shaped by long-running neighbourhood stores, specialist publishers, and quietly curated spaces that reward slow browsing over quick transactions. Bookshops here are not concentrated in a single district. They are…
