- Published: 15 February 2012
- ISBN: 9780099539773
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $24.99
Edgelands
- Published: 15 February 2012
- ISBN: 9780099539773
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $24.99
Haunting, often inspiring book...Edgelands covers an impressive range of politics, reminiscence, investigation and rumination
Scotland on Sunday
A masterpiece of its kind... Even more uplifting is the chapter on weather - truly one of the most extraordinary passages of prose I have read in some time... This is, quite simply, beautiful, but it is also typical of a beautifully conceived work of exploration, by two emissaries to the wilderness who do the wasteland proud
John Burnside, The Times
The edgelands, where the veneer of civilisation peels away, are the most despised and ignored of landscapes. Ambition turns to dust in the sewage farm and landfill site. But Farley and Roberts's mischievous and elegant forays into these marginal wastes, show that dust turns back to life in them - into riotous ecologies, agitprop architecture and the wonderful business of playing. A provocative, left-field read
Richard Mabey
A book that begs us to use our imaginations; to appreciate what we pass by every day but never really see
Metro
Marvellously quirky, fascinatingly detailed and beautifully written
Daily Telegraph
This book is a delight: witty and wryly contrarian
Robert MacFarlane, Guardian
Eye-opening and hugely enjoyable book ... overall this is an original, surprising and rather wonderful addition to our literature of place
Sunday Telegraph
Edgelands delights with its sly, impish wit and observation
Spectator
With chapters on paths, dens, wastelands, business parks and many other topics, this book has opened my eyes to all kinds of things I might not have noticed before
Wendy Cope, Daily Telegraph
This is a delightful and important book. By focusing on the fringes, on the shabby reality of suburban life, these poets remind us that there are always new myths for old, that the 'edgelands' may even be our true centre
John Greening, Country Life
[An] eye-opening and hugely enjoyable book
Daily Telegraph
Written in a delectable prose that scatters flashes of poetry over a sardonic undertow of social comment, Edgelands is a lyrical triumph. On Britain's grotty margins, the duo trace "desire paths" to find beauty and mystery in the rough darkness on the edge of town
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
A 2011 favourite
Wendy Cope, Observer, Books of the Year
The year's most unusual travel book
Tom Chesshyre, The Times