Join us for an evening with best-selling author Rob Cowen to chat about his latest release 'The North Road'. In this genre-defying and profoundly personal book, Cowen follows this ghost road from beginning to end on a journey through history, place, people and time. Weaving his own histories and memories with the layered landscapes he moves through, this is the story of an age, of coming to terms with time past and time passing, and the roads that lead us to where we find ourselves.

Rob Cowen is an award-winning writer, hailed as one of the UK's most original voices on nature, place and people. His first book Skimming Stones, won the Roger Deakin award from the Society of Authors. His second book, Common Ground was shortlisted for the Portico, Richard Jeffries Society and Wainwright Prizes and voted one of the nation's favourite nature books of all time in a BBC poll. His follow-up, The Heeding, was the best-selling debut book of poetry in 2021. His latest book, The North Road was a Radio 4 Book Of The Week. Rob was previously a journalist writing on nature and travel and he has contributed to the New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent and written radio programmes for the BBC.