‘Gavin Francis is a wonderful writer – thoughtful, engaging, immensely knowledgeable and supremely human’ Bill Bryson
‘For those who have missed travelling this year, and for anyone who has pondered the meaning of “isolation”, there is an ideal present – a beautiful and highly illustrated book called Island Dreams, by Gavin Francis, exploring the place of islands in our psyche – from Lamu to the Lofoten Islands, the Faroes to the Falklands, Avalon to the Azores’ Hilary Mantel