Alice Albinia

Nov 27, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Alice Albinia

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May 22, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Alice Albinia

Alice Albinia’s The Britannias recounts the feminist author’s journeys to 14 islands or island chains on the fringes of the British Isles. This is a beguiling volume, brimming with impressive insight and erudition, and vibrant with autobiographical pizazz. A watchful pilgrim by both curious nature and scholarly bent, Albinia undergirds her firsthand “voyage tales” with marvelously on-point side trips through history, custom, and legend.

Mar 20, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad |Alice Albinia |Mary Colwell |Leon McCarron

As a judge for the 2024 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards you’re in an excellent position to advise us on whether it has been a good year for travel books. Yes, I think it has been a very good year for travel writing, as illustrated by the books on the shortlist. One of the great pleasures of being on the judging panel is that you get to read so widely. The finalists cover an incredibly diverse range of topics, places, perspectives and voices, which is wonderful.

Nov 1, 2023 | literaryreview.co.uk | Alice Albinia

In July 2023 Orkney Islands Council voted to explore alternative governmental arrangements for the archipelago. One option proposed by the council leader was for it to become a self-governing territory of Norway, the kingdom which lost control of Orkney to Scotland in 1468. The episode – in reality, a smart political stunt in a row over the Scottish government’s transport policy – attracted extraordinary international attention.

Oct 22, 2023 | heraldscotland.com | Barry Didcock |Alice Albinia

Author Alice Albinia on the Isle of Grain (Image: Eva Vermandel) Turn a decent-sized map of the United Kingdom onto its side or upside down, or simply re-orientate it so familiar contours become unfamiliar ones, and what do you see? Islands is what. Lots of them. With fresh eyes and different points of reference, you notice how many there are.