Footnotes

A wonderfully subtle and ambitious book – P.D. Smith * Guardian *
Insightful and intoxicating. Vybarr Cregan-Reid’s book makes you take your shoes off and run through a world of ideas about nature. – Lynne Truss
Delightful * The Times Literary Supplement *
Footnotes is a blazing achievement. – Kate Norbury * Caught by the River *
Few have done it so artfully and completely. – Oliver Balch * Literary Review *
Here is a book in which the striding energy of the prose matches its subject. – Iain Sinclair
Wonderfully authoritative vindication of what ought to be a self-evident truth: that running should be about being alive, not being a consumer. * Richard Askwith - author of Running Free: A Runner’s Journey Back to Nature *
It’s hard to imagine a more compelling or poetic running companion than Vybarr Cregan-Reid. He inspires us not just to run, but to be truly alive while we are doing it. – Scarlett Thomas
A brilliant, broad-ranging and beautiful book. Like a great run into a wild landscape, it opens the heart and the mind, taking you off into the unknown, delighting at every turn and returning you changed for the better. – Rob Cowen - author of Common Ground

Vybarr Cregan-Reid is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Kent. He has written on running for the Guardian, Telegraph, Literary Review and the BBC. He has also written numerous articles and essays for academic journals and a book on Victorian culture.

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