Top 5: Hitting the literary trail at our top five book festivals

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page," said Saint Augustine, a man who did a fair bit of travelling himself. Those with a passion for books and for seeing the world often crisscross in the great Venn diagram of people’s passions. With the growth of literary festivals globally, the big book fests now have the power to attract an international audience, who will travel to be there for the experience, the big name literary celebs and the opportunity to mix with other bibliophiles. We pick our top five book-ish fests to combine with a trip.