The North Road: In conversation with Rob Cowen

The North Road: A journey through time, place and memory'Radical and beautiful. Haunted and hauntingA dazzlingly inventive work of literature . Robert Macfarlane
The North Road is a wonderful and epic braiding of history and geography and personal memoir . James RebanksThe North Road is the critically acclaimed new book from the author of Common Ground . For fans of W.G. Sebald, Robert Macfarlane, Iain Sinclair and Kathleen Jamie, The North Road sits at the intersection between On The Road and the film, Arcadia .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 Britains great highway.Rob Cowen is an award-winning writer and author, hailed as one of the UKs most original voices on nature, place and people. His first book, Skimming Stones , won the Roger Deakin Award from the Society of Authors. His second book, Common Ground was shortlisted for the Portico, Richard Jefferies Society and Wainwright Prizes and voted one of the nations favourite nature books of all time in a BBC poll. His follow-up, The
Heeding , was the best-selling debut book of poetry in 2021. Rob has contributed to the New York Times , the Guardian and the Independent and written radio programmes for the BBC. He lives in North Yorkshire.This event is brought to you byFOLDE Dorset [http://www.foldedorset.com]in partnership with theGrosvenor Arms [https://grosvenorarms.co.uk/].If you dine at the Grosvenor on the day of this talk, you'll receive 10% off your food bill on presentation of your ticket. We strongly recommend booking in advance.