The North RoadLONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2025 AND A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK '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 400 mile multiplicity

In more recent years

Massud - a fellow architect - is caught in the crossfire and dies before she can confess to him her greatest secret

and an AI pioneer - that intersect on an island in French Polynesia when it is chosen as a base for seasteading

the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free

the poems build into an enthralling meditation on hybridity

a germophobic Mantis

Monsters can gobble up children and go unnoticed

from views from her homely studio in Rutland to the Scottish wilderness

she wakes up to the 18th of November

Now Elizabeth must choose her allies - and husband - wisely

and Sebastian Copien

when everything changes