#faulkner_william

Ankh-Morpork The city state at the centre of many of the adventures in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels.

Gondor One of the countries of Middle Earth in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Isola The city, not unlike New York, in which Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct crime novels are set.

Lake Wobegon The fictional town in Minnesota which is the setting for Garrison Keillor’s stories.

Llareggub The town in Dylan Thomas"’s play Under Milk Wood which sounds a plaus- ible Welsh place name but is actually ‘bugger all’ backwards.

Malgudi The fictional town somewhere in South India where the majority of R.K. Narayan’s novels are set.

Maycomb, Alabama The small town in which the action of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird takes place.

Shangri-La The isolated Himalayan valley where peace and harmony reign in James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon.

St. Mary Mead The village in which Agatha Christie’s spinster detective Miss Marple lives.