Following Tuesdays unveiling of English Heritage’s most recent blue plaque to honour the fantastic novelist Jean Rhys, we're going to take a little book exchange outing this weekend, and prepared with a few soggy sandwiches and a hip-flask (of coffee of course) will take a mini literary blue plaque tour to discover where some of our favourite authors laid their heads when residing in West London.  So from start to finish we'll take in:

22 Paultons House, Paultons Square, Chelsea where we will raise our cloth hats, cigarettes & leather gloves to Jean Rhys who penned Good Morning, Midnight while living there

18 St Leonard’s Terrace, Chelsea, SW3 4QG to make doubly sure Bran Stoker’s Dracula isn't still skulking about London

24 Chester Square, Belgravia, SW1W 9HS home for a period to Mary Shelley the Godmother of Gothic fiction

22 Ebury Street, Belgravia, SW1W 8LW for a bit of Ian Fleming 007 action

28 Campden Grove, Holland Park, W8 4JQ losing ourselves along-the-way in a fog of James Joyce inspired stream of consciousness  

16 Phillimore Place, Holland Park, W8 7BU to visit Kenneth Grahame and his Wind in the Willows cohorts

Keep up-to-date with our blue plaque progress on @bookexchangeuk and send us your own blue plaque images and routes over on facebook (The Book Exchange UK)

If you have any suggestions of where else we could head for future book exchange literary outings please do let us know.

(Fingers crossed the weather stays spring-like!)