Roger Morgan-Grenville

The natural world has many problems: climate change, pollution, soil degradation, waste and disease to name but five, but it is the issue of biodiversity loss and the opportunities for its reversal that fascinate West Sussex author Roger Morgan-Grenville.

His fifth book, The Restless Coast, is a moving and beautiful account of a journey around Britain’s 10,000 miles of coastline, a terrain steeped in history; constantly shifting, changing, adapting and providing. At once delightful travelogue and passionate defence, The Restless Coast shines a powerful spotlight into the thin line that surrounds us and defines our status as islanders. Overarching the journey is the extraordinary natural history of the coastline, together with the story of how man has imprinted himself on its very geology and shape for countless centuries.

‘Morgan-Grenville is clear-eyed, but not pessimistic ... he’s a good listener and communicates hard truths lightly.’ Times Literary Supplement