'Unofficial' Britain is made up of the places that are often left behind. This is a journey into the forgotten spaces that really tell the modern story of our island.
There is a Britain that exists outside of the official histories and
guidebooks - places that lie on the margins, left behind. This is the
Britain of industrial estates, and tower blocks, of motorway service
stations and haunted council houses, of roundabouts and flyovers. Places
where modern life speeds past but where people and stories nevertheless
collect. Places where human dramas play out: stories of love, violence,
fear, boredom and artistic expression. Places of ghost sightings, first
kisses, experiments with drugs, refuges for the homeless, hangouts for
the outcasts.
Struck by the power of these stories and
experiences, Gareth Rees set out to explore these spaces and the
essential part they have played in the history and geography of our
isles. Though neglected and forgotten, they can be
as powerfully influential in our lives, and imaginations, as any picture postcard tourist destination.
Welcome to Unofficial Britain, a personal and occasionally fevered
journey along the edges of a landscape brimming with magic and mystery,
tragedy and myth; a story of Britain that gets cut from the narrative; a
map of the cracks in the urban façade where unexpected life can
flourish. Signed copies.
Unofficial Britain : Journeys Through Unexpected Places - Gareth Rees
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