The city of Bath has a strong literary heritage, with authors past and present gathering inspiration from the city.

It is well-known that eighteenth-century novelist Jane Austen once lived in, and wrote about, Bath, but the city was also immortilized in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, and provided inspiration to Anna Sewell and Mary Shelley, whose novels Black Beauty and Frankenstein were influenced by the city.

Nowadays, Bath continues to feature in popular literature. Douglas Westcott's novels, Go Swift and Far and An Unfolding Soul, bring the city to life, shining a spotlight on little-known aspects of Bath's colourful past.