The North Road
$25.14
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2026
Summary
The highly anticipated major new work from the acclaimed author of Common Ground.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2025
“A dazzlingly inventive work of literature” – Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways
“A wonderful, epic braiding of history, geography and personal memoir” – James Rebanks, author of English Pastoral
At the heart of this book is a highway. The A1; The Great North Road. A 40…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804941393 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804941395 |
| Author: | Rob Cowen |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 29mm |
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Critics Review
A beautifully written study of our longest numbered route, the A1, is full of rich asides and haunting explorations, conjuring the visual pleasure of a road movie. * GUARDIAN *
Richly historical … The North Road is a wonderful achievement … Cowen has perhaps found his country’s elusive sense of identity. It resides not in landscape or football or a National Trust garden, but in an ever-changing, ever-active, thundering dual carriageway. It begins in uncertainty and ends in a different nation. Brilliantly, The North Road is everything. It is “England and nowhere”. * NEW STATESMAN *
About The Author
Rob Cowen
Rob Cowen is an award-winning writer and author, hailed as one of the UK’s 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 (PRH; 2015), was shortlisted for the Portico, Richard Jefferies Society and Wainwright Prizes and voted one of the nation’s favourite nature books of all time in a BBC poll. His follow-up, The Heeding (E&T; 2021), 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.
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