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The Restless Coast: online talk with Roger Morgan-Grenville

Wednesday 19 November 2025. Via Zoom at 7pm.

Published in June 2025, Roger Morgan-Grenville’s latest hardback The Restless Coast is a moving and beautiful account of a journey around the island of Britain. With over 10,000 miles of coastline, steeped in history and constantly shifting, changing, adapting and providing, the author travels around the length of the coastline to discover its challenges and opportunities, and to talk to the people trying to protect it.

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.

Into the account, Roger Morgan-Grenville threads the modern challenges that the shoreline faces, and the people who are trying to protect it. At once informative, angry and funny, The Restless Coast is a very personal love letter to our island edge.

Roger Morgan-Grenville was a soldier from 1978-86. In 2007, he helped set up the charity Help for Heroes, and in 2020 he was a founding member of the conservation charity, Curlew Action. His earlier titles. Liquid Gold, Shearwater, Taking Stock and Across a Waking Land are also published by Icon. He lives in West Sussex.