Ali Smith finds the modern landscape still suggests the other-worldly creatures she used to read about in folk tales. Niall Griffiths laments the clumsy tributes to Dylan Thomas that cover every available surface in Laugharne. Virginia Woolf’s Orlando might seem to be standing beside you in the unchanged parkland around Knole. How does Jaspar Fforde’s alternative Swindon compare with our comparatively prosaic version? And who would have thought the M40 such a rich seam for Will Self?
Every writer contributing to this amazing tour of literary Britain continues to be inspired by the writers who lived in their region. They find, whether or not the landscape is changed, some common ground with them.
Common Ground: Around Britain in 30 Writers
Publication Date: September 14, 2006
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Pages: 321
Format: Paperback
Authors: Jim Davies, Richard Medrington, Niall Griffiths, Penelope Williams, Molly Mackey, Sarah Burnett, Maja Pawinska Simms, Will Awdry, John Simmons, Rishi Dastidar, Laura Forman, William Easton, Tim Rich, Elisa Valmorbida, Robert Mighall, Tom Wilcox, Justina Hart, Lorelei Mathias, John Mitchinson, Stephen Brown, Rob Williams, Roger Horberry, Sarah McCartney, Neil Taylor, Richard Clayton, James Jauncey, Ali Smith, Stuart Delves, Jonathan Holt, Peter Kirby
