ROB COWEN

The North Road by Rob Cowen

Just finished this incredibly powerful, moving and thought provoking book.

‘The North Road’
By @robcowen.bsky.social

The history, the geography, the memories, the personal stories, just brilliant!

I’ve never read a book quite like it.
I highly recommend! 📘📖

@stanfordstravel.bsky.social 📚

Rob Cowen and Robert Mac Farlane on stage at the Cambridge Literary Festival April 2025.

Just spent a glorious hour at the #Cambridge Literary Festival listening to @robcowen.bsky.social & @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social discuss Rob's new book The North Road. I do love a book that starts with a map & great to hear satellite images were part of the process. @josefaschbacher.esa.int #eochat

#farsleylitfest #leeds
Join us for an evening of discovery with award-winning writer @robcowen.bsky.social as he takes us on an unforgettable exploration of Britain’s great highway, the A1.

Be captivated by stories about his genre-defying book 'The North Road'.

trumanbooks.co.uk/events

Calton Hill sign board

The A1 in Edinburgh.

The site of Netherbow Port.

The world's end.

What an appropriate place to finish the last few chapters of @robcowen.bsky.social excellent book, The North Road. From #Cambrdge to the historic Netherbow Port & Calton Hill by the modern A1 in #Edinburgh. Routes, maps, journeys, & stories make us. @edfringe.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

Thanks so much Geoff! Perfect indeed!

Thanks so much @tania55.bsky.social !! Great taste that @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

Travel and Nature Writing

Struggling to find your next read?
Here’s a few for your list! 📚📖

Head to @stanfordstravel.bsky.social
and seek them out 🤗

@robcowen.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @shafikmeghji.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Last week @robcowen.bsky.social delighted Friends of the Festival with a lively conversation on his latest book, The North Road. We also gave our Friends a sneak preview of this year's festival line up (they've promised to keep quiet 🤫). The rest of you will just have to wait until 14 August!

The North Road: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week The North Road: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week eBook : Cowen, Rob: Amazon.co.uk: Books

The North Road by @robcowen.bsky.social is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink #booksky amzn.to/46aYRyu

Thanks so much!

Aah, thank you. 😁

Ta Sari!

thanks so much.

Hugely honoured to find out that #TheNorthRoad has been longlisted for the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social

😁😁❤️

Thank you! What a view from where to follow the road…

Poo bag sticker that reads “3 bags left”.

How the world might have been different if Nick Drake was a dog owner rather than a dope smoker.

We're starting to reach sold-out status on quite a few of our events for this year's programme...

But these two are definitely sold out 👏

🌟 Rob Cowen - The North Road 
🌟 Newark Town Centre Tree Walk

Irreplaceable habitats are on the line. This is the reality if an unamended Part 3 of the Bill passes.

It must not.

How lovely! And powerfully true. I’m opening its covers this weekend and I can’t wait.

Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn

What did we do to deserve this government? It promised change, and many people voted on that basis, in good faith. But the change is from bad to worse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"It's the sudden jolt of finding yourself at the margins where humans and nature step outside the neat categories we give them"
📖 Rob Cowen, Common Ground, Windmill Books, 2015

#booksky
#nature
#Yorkshire

Thanks so much Stevie. That’s such a wonderful thing to read.

Thanks so much Andrew. Me too!

Hopefully Patrick! I’m working on it.

The North Road playlist is up on Spotify. Close to 6 hours of the songs and music that accompanied the journey and shaped the writing.

More than this, it echoes the unfolding chapters. A listen along for anyone reading the book.

Perfect for a Bank Holiday. 😁

open.spotify.com/playlist/1RD...

Newly ordered from Blackwells, because they so nicely deliver to Canada with the postage built into the price (which stops me from wincing...) I did try my local indie bookstore first, but they don't have it even in their 'can be ordered' lists.

Thanks so much Marian! That means the world to me. All love to you good souls in Canada and bless you for persevering - and thanks to @blackwells.bsky.social also for sorting. What service!

C’est bon, non?

Thought I couldn’t love Springsteen more.

Thanks Clemency!