Bloomsday is a delightful annual celebration to honour the life and works of the famous Irish writer James Joyce and his seminal novel "Ulysses".

Tourism around the hit TV show has been a huge boost to Croatia's economy - not that you need another reason to visit this anything-but-stark country.

The 1913 work is the most famous Scottish poem about trains … and linoleum.

A strong, independent sheep farmer becomes a reluctant hero when she is thrust into politics by opposing the construction of a hydroelectric dam in her remote Icelandic community.