Unofficial Britain: Journeys Through Unexpected Places (Hardback)
Gareth E. Rees (author)Published: 17/09/2020
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
ISBN: 9781783965144
Number of pages: 288
Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
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"Rees finds soul in these soulless locations, charting stories and encounters as rich as those found among rolling hills and chocolate box villages. A delight." - The New European
"Should be required reading in every motorway service station coffee shop up and down this land" - The Psychogeographic Review
'You should read this book. It will make you stay up too late, laugh out loud, and then freak yourself out looking out of the window at the haunted-looking binbag blowing past Carpet Right in the dead of night.' - Michael Smith, author of Unreal City
"A wonderful ramble through the Brexit Britain of today - warts and all." - Elsewhere: A Journal of Place
"Essential reading if you are interested in the urban wyrd and how folklore is mutating and developing in modern times." - Folk Horror Revival
"Unofficial Britain was my book of 2020" - Paul Cheney, Half Man Half Book
"Effortlessly combining urban folklore and personal memoir, history and psychogeography, road-trip narrative and gonzo journalism." - Ends of the World
"A fascinating and sometimes unnerving book" - Shiny New Books.
"Dry and often very funny" - Bookmunch
"[...] harnesses the personal and philosophical, offering thoughts that are penetrating yet always entertaining [...] A fresh take on vistas some may too readily dismiss." - Never Imitate
"The mythical and the municipal collide in a weirdly compelling tour of Britain's built environment" - The Financial Times
"An appreciation of quotidian, overlooked and sometimes grotty landscapes; part memoir, part 'hauntology', and a stiff dose of nearness and weirdness to counter the tweeness that afflicts some topographical writing." - Will Wiles, author of Care of Wooden Floors
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