Middleland - Dispatches from the Borders

* From the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of POLITICS ON THE EDGE and co-host of THE REST IS POLITICS * Rory Stewart spent nearly a decade as a MP of Britain''s most rural constituency, Penrith and the Border. As he came to know and love this part of Cumbria, he found inspiration in the beauty of its landscape, its rugged history as a frontierland, and in the spirit of its people. Drawing on pieces originally written for a local newspaper, Middleland is an unforgettable portrait of rural Britain today - a place caught in tensions between farming and the natural world, between the need to preserve and to grow, between local and national politics - as well as a timeless evocation of the history, people and landscape of Cumbria.

About the author

Rory Stewart lived in and around the Eden Valley of Cumbria for ten years, serving as the Member of Parliament for Penrith and the Border. He is half Scottish and half English. He is the author of several prize-winning and bestselling books including The Places in Between, a New York Times bestseller, and, most recently, Politics On the Edge, a no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Stewart is currently Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, and the co-host of the leading UK podcast The Rest Is Politics.

Product details

• Authors: Rory Stewart, Stewart Rory
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 24.09.2026
• EAN: 9781529971644
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-7164-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Cumbria, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, NATURE / Regional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, The environment, Reportage & collected journalism, Social and cultural history, Science / Environmental Science, Agriculture and farming, Social attitudes, c 2010 to c 2019, Sociology and anthropology, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Political ideologies and movements, Regional government, Rural communities / rural life