John Shors Literary Travel

This blog was updated in July 2023 to include 2024 tour dates.

As a book lover, the chances are that you enjoy traveling to places you've never been through the books you read, and you probably also enjoy traveling in person, which is why I am excited to update you on John Shors' upcoming Literary Tours.

You probably know John from his novels, many of which have been featured on BookBrowse and are bestsellers in the U.S. and overseas (he's been translated into nearly thirty languages). In all his eleven novels to date, starting with Beneath a Marble Sky which transports readers to 17th century Hindustan and the building of the Taj Mahal through to My Midnight Sun set in modern day Nepal, John brings his settings to vivid life by drawing on his many years of travel and research.

For the past few years, John has been combining his love of writing and travel to personally lead small groups (average size is just 10 people with two guides) on tours to the parts of the world he knows intimately.

Among the trips coming up in early 2024 are a tour of Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, co-led with bestselling author Jamie Ford which will dive deep into the origins of both authors' works, and another accompanied by a yoga master who will guide daily yoga and meditation classes at special sites.

Other 2024 destinations include Greece, Morocco, Uzbekistan, Japan, Laos and Bhutan.

One thing to know about John is that he's one of life's all-round nice guys. I've been in contact with him for over a decade and if he puts half the enthusiasm into his tours that he does into communicating with readers about his books (he's spoken with over 3,000 book clubs!) I have no doubt that he delivers on his claim to "bring adventurous travelers face-to-face with the world's wonders." As he says on his site: "No day is ever the same. And no path is ever followed twice."

You can find out more about John and his tours at johnshorstravel.com. If you contact him, please tell him you heard about his tours on BookBrowse, as he's been kind enough to say he'll give us a commission. (Although, between you and me, I would have been quite happy to share this anyway because I believe him to be one of those positive forces in life who puts into the world far more than he takes from it.)

Davina, BookBrowse Publisher