{"id":7723,"date":"2025-02-26T18:11:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=7723"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:57:24","slug":"2025-sunday-2-30pm-roger-morgan-grenville","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=7723","title":{"rendered":"2025 Sunday – 2.30pm Roger Morgan-Grenville"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Restless Coast: A Journey Around the Edge of Britain<\/span><\/p>

with Roger Morgan-Grenville<\/span><\/p>

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Date:\u00a0 Sunday 8th June 2025<\/strong><\/p>

Venue:\u00a0 Montgomery Town Hall<\/strong><\/p>

Time:\u00a0 2.30-3.15pm<\/strong><\/p>

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The island of Britain has over 10,000 miles of coastline, steeped in history and constantly shifting, changing, adapting and providing.\u00a0<\/p>

Donning his walking boots once again, Roger Morgan-Grenville has journeyed around it \u2013 starting from the northern coast of Scotland and travelling south, east and north again.\u00a0The Restless Coast<\/em> tells the fascinating story of the coast\u2019s challenges and opportunities, championing along the way the people who are trying to protect it.<\/p>

Making a welcome return to Monty Lit Fest, Roger will tell us all about his travels, the coastline\u2019s extraordinary and precious natural history and why he describes the book as a \u2018love letter to our island edge.\u2019<\/p>

Roger Morgan-Grenville <\/strong>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;<\/em> Shearwater;<\/em> Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows; Across a Waking Land; The Return of the Grey Partridge <\/em>and 2025\u2019s The Restless Coast<\/em>. 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.<\/p>

Adam Bedford <\/strong>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.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0 The Restless Coast: A Journey Around the Edge of Britain with Roger Morgan-Grenville in conversation with Adam Bedford Date:\u00a0 Sunday 8th June 2025 Venue:\u00a0 Montgomery Town Hall Time:\u00a0 2.30-3.15pm Tickets:\u00a0 \u00a39.00 The island of Britain has over 10,000 miles of coastline, steeped in history and constantly shifting, changing, adapting and providing.\u00a0 Donning his walking …<\/p>\n

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