Unofficial Britain’s Weird and Wonderful Reads 2022
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees I’ve had an insanely busy year. It began with me finalising my debut short story collection, …
Climate Change, Ecological Breakdown & Neoliberal Anxiety in the English Edgelands
LOCATION: Southern England WORDS: Gareth E. Rees, author of Unofficial Britain “Global warming had gone past the tipping point, the …
The Sperm Whale and the Volvo 245
WORDS & PICTURES: Peter Riley – this is an extract from his book, Strandings (Profile Books, 2022) When I was …
Abandonment, Trespass and Flood: Unofficial Britain’s Strange & Unsettling Reads of 2021
Gareth E. Rees with his annual list of books about landscape, memory and culture
Echtrai – the Secrets of Lost, Abandoned & Mythic Landscapes
Introducing a brand new journal of writing and art that explores forgotten places
From Tarmac to Towpath: Excursions into Lockdown
A catalogue of lockdown by Neil Jackson
The Supermarket Car Park Fugue
On The London Ear show on Resonance FM, Unofficial Britain’s editor Gareth E. Rees reads from his new book Car …
Fat Balls & A Lost Wedding Ring at a Sheffield Retail Park
Author of Car Park Life, Gareth E. Rees, recounts the sorry tale of his trip to a retail park in Sheffield in which he encounters the Mad Hatter, fat balls, riverside poetry and loses his wedding ring.
Absurdities and Synchronicities: A Postman’s View of the Everyday
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees reviewing Round About Town, by Kevin Boniface, Uniformbooks 2018 LOCATION: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire IMAGES: Kevin Boniface from Round …
Wyrd & Riotous Calendars to Corrupt Your Poor Mind
WORDS: Gareth E Rees LOCATION: The Year This month I’ve come into possession of two strange, unconventional calendars that turn the …