Join us in the shop on Thursday 4th June at 7pm for an evening with award winning travel writer and author Richard Collett.
We will be discussing Richard’s book ‘Along the Borders’ which is to be published on the 30th April this year.
Searching for a sense of national and personal identity in an increasingly fragmented United Kingdom, ‘Along The Borders’ merges British history with contemporary politics and culture.
Collett’s journey takes him to the banks of the River Tamar - a natural boundary dividing Anglo-Saxon Devon from Celtic Cornwall for a thousand years, to the English-Welsh borders, where Offa’s Dyke has separated the two countries since the 8th century. He then travels north to the Anglo-Scottish borderlands, Orkney and Shetland, and across the Irish Sea to Northern Ireland.
Collett explores the rise of regional identities in the midst of an ever-loosening sense of national unity, but ultimately, this isn’t a book about differences and divisions. ‘Along The Borders’ is a travel book that tries to find what unites Britain.
Join us in the shop on Thursday 4th June at 7pm for an evening with award winning travel writer and author Richard Collett.
We will be discussing Richard’s book ‘Along the Borders’ which is to be published on the 30th April this year.
Searching for a sense of national and personal identity in an increasingly fragmented United Kingdom, ‘Along The Borders’ merges British history with contemporary politics and culture.
Collett’s journey takes him to the banks of the River Tamar - a natural boundary dividing Anglo-Saxon Devon from Celtic Cornwall for a thousand years, to the English-Welsh borders, where Offa’s Dyke has separated the two countries since the 8th century. He then travels north to the Anglo-Scottish borderlands, Orkney and Shetland, and across the Irish Sea to Northern Ireland.
Collett explores the rise of regional identities in the midst of an ever-loosening sense of national unity, but ultimately, this isn’t a book about differences and divisions. ‘Along The Borders’ is a travel book that tries to find what unites Britain.
