Publication day for THE BRITANNIAS

The Britannias: An Island Quest

is published on 19 October.

“A dazzlingly brilliant book. Travelling by boat, swimming through kelp, riding on a fishing trawler, Alice Albinia takes us on an extraordinary journey around the British isles, revealing a liquid past where women ruled and mermaids sang and tracing the sea-changes of her own heart.”

Hannah Dawson

Ten years in the making, Alice Albinia’s remarkable history of Britain via its islands is published today.