MARCHES: BORDER WALKS WITH MY FATHER (PB)

Former MP and travel writer Rory Stewart traversed the borderlands between England and Scotland with his father and this account is a moving exploration of landscape, history, identity as well as the love between a father and son. On their 600-mile thirty-day journey, the pair relive Scottish dances, talk about Burmese honey bears and the loss of human presence in the countryside around them. Their odyssey develops into story of nationhood and landscape and, written with pathos and wit, Stewart's memoir is a moving, honest and loving portrait of his father and homeland.