VisitEngland declared that 2017 will be the Year of Literary Heroes in recognition of the 200th anniversary of Jane Austens death, the twenty years since the first Harry Potter book and many other milestones of the literary world.
Following 2016’s Year of the Garden, which commemorated the tercentenary of landscape designer, Capability Brown, the Year of Literary Heroes will celebrate some of the publishing phenomena that have helped put England on the map.