The island of Britain has over 10,000 miles of coastline, steeped in history and constantly shifting, changing, adapting and providing. 

Donning his walking boots once again, Roger Morgan-Grenville has journeyed around it – starting from the northern coast of Scotland and travelling south, east and north again. The Restless Coast tells the fascinating story of the coast’s challenges and opportunities, championing along the way the people who are trying to protect it.

Making a welcome return to Monty Lit Fest, Roger will tell us all about his travels, the coastline’s extraordinary and precious natural history and why he describes the book as a ‘love letter to our island edge.’

Roger Morgan-Grenville is writer and conservation campaigner specialising in the practicalities of biodiversity loss and recovery. His books include Liquid Gold: Bees and the Pursuit of Midlife Honey; Shearwater; Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows; Across a Waking Land; The Return of the Grey Partridge and 2025’s The Restless Coast. Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a soldier and worked at a small kitchenware company. He also helped to found and fundraise for the charity Help for Heroes and is a founding member and chair of trustees of the campaigning charity, Curlew Action.

Adam Bedford has studied and worked in and around agriculture for the past 20 years. In his day job he develops projects in the gap between farmers and scientists to boost sustainable agriculture. He is the Founder of the Fieldwork Book Club, an online book club for books on food, farming and the natural world. Adam lives rurally near York with his wife and three sons.