CHANNEL SHORE (PB)

The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world, and has been crucial to England’s development, prosperity and defence. Tom Fort takes a fascinating, discursive journey from east to west, to find out what is so special about the English seaside. He dips his toe into Sandgate's waters, takes the air in Hastings and Bexhill, chews whelks in Brighton, hunts a shark off Looe, and hears stories of smugglers and shipwreck robbers, beachcombers and samphire gatherers, gold diggers and fossil hunters.