Home: Fairwarp, East Sussex

A timely sale given the upcoming release of Goodbye Christopher Robin. The grounds of this four-bed house open on to Ashdown Forest where Winnie-the-Pooh began his cavortings in the 1920s. It’s a heathery hike to 100 Acre Wood (officially known as 500 Acre Wood) and the bridge, close to AA Milne’s weekend retreat, which inspired Poohsticks. This Arts & Crafts house is of similar vintage to Pooh, but its interiors, with vaulted beamed ceilings and bay windows overlooking the forest, have been swishly modernised. Yours for £1.25m.Hamptons International, 01892 323034

Home: Owsla Park, Whitchurch, Hampshire

It was on the chalky uplands near here that a colony of rabbits made the hazardous journey to Watership Down. Richard Adams, author of the 1972 classic, lived in the village until his death last year and the novel was inspired by the area. Owsla was the name he gave to the officer rabbits who policed the warrens, and the roads on the estate are named for characters in the book. Ironically, of course, this tribute is exactly the sort of development that forced the fictional warren to flee to pastures new. Prices start at £275,000.Bewley Homes, 01256 895424

Home: Chalmore Ferry, Wallingford, Oxfordshire

The predecessor of this house was mentioned in Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat, as the characters sail from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back. The Victorian structure that Jerome knew was replaced in 1913 and inhabited until the 1950s by the ferrymen who transported passengers and freight over the river. The outhouse was the ticket booth. The verandah overlooks water meadows and a dairy farm on the opposite shore; the price reflects this, for there are only two bedrooms. Cost: £950,000. UK Sotheby’s International Realty, 01932 860537

Home: Slad, Gloucestershire

Slad village was the home and final resting place of the author Laurie Lee, and his most famous novel, Cider with Rosie, was based on his childhood in the village. This loftily perched house has views over the valley where Lee lay with Rosie, and is a stroll from his old home below the Woolpack inn. It’s a topsy turvy lifestyle inside with a ground floor entrance and living area, and three en suite bedrooms below. A 24-foot office room could be converted into more sleeping quarters or an annexe. Yours for £675,000.Hamptons International, 01452 595249

Away: Paris

The floor-to-ceiling windows of this stately apartment overlook the Place de Bastille in and around which Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables unfolded. It’s here, inside a gigantic plaster elephant that once dominated the round ‘square’, that the urchin Gavroche hid from the violence around the barricades. The two-bedroom flat, next to the Opera Bastille, has parquet flooring, a stone fireplace and original partitioning beams, and comes with a cellar. It’s only 11 metres from the Metro and and a walk to the city centre. Yours for €1.095m (£959,600).Athena Advisers, 020 7471 4500