Alistair Moffat

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The North Sea: Along the Edge of Britain is Alistair Moffat's record of a journey from Kent to Shetland and many points between. Andrew Marr wrote: “ A rollicking, surprising, often moving personal history of a big part of the British story that has long needed its own narrative. Page-turningly entertaining”. And Professor David Abulafia said, “…this is a marvellously readable and highly original account of the role of the North Sea in the making of England and Scotland.” And Jon Gower added: “In prose as sparkling as summer wavelets, often zingily tanged with ozone and seaweed, the (veteran) traveller-historian brings the past to vivid life, painting a portrait of sea-edge and coastal land, trawling through the bountiful blessings of the sea’s fishy harvests and charting the wild terrors of its gathering storms.”

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