tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494575.post4582719477719456327..comments2023-11-12T09:33:33.291-05:00Comments on Book Glutton: The Only Way Is WessexBook Gluttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14569975755798562829noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494575.post-13963106204084080002014-01-16T11:20:48.597-05:002014-01-16T11:20:48.597-05:00Excellent examples. I spent a fair amount of time...Excellent examples. I spent a fair amount of time looking for Lamperdown on a map. The problem with a list like this is that after you draw up a few places and stop, you start to think of even more and better places. I kept thinking of TV even though I wanted places from literature.Book Gluttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14569975755798562829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494575.post-40830129730245419062014-01-16T11:11:24.645-05:002014-01-16T11:11:24.645-05:00D'oh! And how could we forget: Lamperdown, the...D'oh! And how could we forget: Lamperdown, the North Downs village home to Calder and Behrens!Nick Jones (Louis XIV, the Sun King)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17716508525331235684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494575.post-69947559896143339862014-01-16T05:14:05.468-05:002014-01-16T05:14:05.468-05:00Food for thought here. I've had quite a lot of...Food for thought here. I've had quite a lot of hits at EE from people looking up Studley Constable, the fictional Norfolk village in Jack Higgins' The Eagle Has Landed (and the film adaptation). P. M. Hubbard came up with some plausible place names – Lodstone in Flush as May, Pelant in Picture of Millie, Dunstreet in Hive of Glass. My favourite fictional place, though, is Villeperce – or Villeperce-sur-Seine – the French village where Tom Ripley has taken up residence in Patricia Highsmith's Ripley sequels – especially George and Marie's bar-tabac. I wish I could pay it a visit, sit at the counter and drink a beer.Nick Jones (Louis XIV, the Sun King)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17716508525331235684noreply@blogger.com