Part I: Romantic prospects (up to 1914): Jane Austen, Bath, England
Alessandro Manzoni, Lombardy, Italy
Honore de Balzac, Paris, France
Emily Bronte, Yorkshire Moors, England
Charles Dickens, London, England
Victor Hugo, Paris, France
Leo Tolstoy, Tula Oblast, Russia
Thomas Hardy, Dorset, England
Mark Twain, Mississippi River, USA
Robert Louis Stevenson, Highlands, Scotland
August Strindberg, Kymmendö, Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden
H.G. Wells, Surrey, England
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Willa Cather, Nebraska, USA.
Part II: Mapping Modernism (1914-1945): D.H. Lawrence, Nottinghamshire, England
Sigrid Undset, Gudbrand Valley, Norway
Edith Wharton, New York City, USA
James Joyce, Dublin, Ireland
Thomas Mann, Alps, Switzerland
Virginia Woolf, London, England
F. Scott Fitzgerald, New York City and Long Island, USA
A.A. Milne, Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, England
Alberto Moravia, Rome, Italy
Alfred Döblin, Berlin, Germany
Isaac Babel, Odessa, Ukraine
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Kansas, USA
William Faulkner, Mississippi and Cambridge, Massachusettes, USA
Daphne du Maurier, Fowey, Cornwall, England
Ernest Hemingway, Guadarrama Mountains, Spain
Jorge Amado, Bahia, Brazil
John Steinbeck, Monterey, California, USA.
Part III: Postwar panoramas: Gerard Reve, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo, Egypt
Camilo José Cela, Madrid, Spain
Raymond Chandler, Los Angeles, USA
Dylan Thomas, Laugharne, Wales
Yukio Mishima, Uta-Jima, Japan
Francoise Sagan, Côte d'Azur, France
Samuel Selvon, London, England
Grace Metalious, New Hampshire, USA
Patrick White, Outback, Australia
Elsa Morante, Provida, Bay of Naples, Italy
Chinua Achebe, Onitsha, East Bank Niger River, Nigeria
Harper Lee, Monroeville, Alabama, USA
Tarjei Vesaas, Telemark, Norway
Mikhail Bulgakov, Moscow, Russia
John Fowles, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
Toni Morrison, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Tove Jansson, Pellinki Archipelago, Finland
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Solovetsky Islands, White Sea, Russia.
Part IV: Contemporary geographies: Armistead Maupin, San Francisco, USA
Earl Lovelace, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon, Portugal
Peter Schneider, West and East Berlin, Germany
Jay McInerney, New York City, USA
Patricia Grace, Hongeoka Bay, North Island, New Zealand
Michael Ondaatje, Toronto, Canada
Louise Erdrich, Turtle Mountain Reservatin, North Dakota, USA
Tim Winton, Perth, Australia
E. Annie Proulx, Newfoundland, Canada
Natsuhiko Kyōgoku, Tokyo, Japan
Thomas Wharton, Jasper, Alberta, Canada
Patrick Modiano, Paris, France
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Orhan Pamuk, Kars, Turkey
Kate Grenville, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, Australia
Elena Ferrante, Naples, Italy
Yan Lianke, Henan Province, People's Republic of China
Eleanor Catton, Hokitika, South Island, New Zealand
Neel Mukherjee, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Francis Spufford, New York, USA
Miguel Bonnefoy, Amazon Rainforest, Venezuela.