The North Road - A haunting exploration of time, place memory along road to London

''Radical and beautiful. Haunted and haunting: Cowen tracks the London-Edinburgh highway [...] A dazzlingly inventive work of literature.'' Robert Macfarlane At the heart of this book is a highway. The A1; The Great North Road. A 400-mile multiplicity of ancient trackway, Roman road, pilgrim path, coach route and motorway that has run like a backbone through Britain for the last 2,000 years. In this genre-defying and profoundly personal book, Cowen follows this ghost road from beginning to end on a journey through history, place, people and time. Weaving his own histories and memories with the layered landscapes he moves through, this is the story of an age, of coming to terms with time past and time passing, and the roads that lead us to where we find ourselves. Written in kaleidoscopic prose, The North Road is an unforgettable exploration of Britain''s great highway. ''A dazzling, dogged, layered account of one road''s passage through place, time and an ordinary family''s history, The North Road truly is a trip.'' Melissa Harrison ''Thought-provoking and beautiful.'' Matt Gaw

Product details

• Authors: Rob Cowen, Cowen Rob
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9781529152432
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-5243-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; European History, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, HISTORY / Social History, Memoirs, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, Travel writing, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Transport: general interest, Historical Geography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs