The Shipping Forecasts! How could anyone write a whole book about that? I picked this up with a sinking heart. Well, I have to eat my words, this is a remarkable achievement. Charlie travels to most of the sites mentioned in the forecasts (not Rockall) and chatters away in an amusing style relating an astonishing quantity of information about the place and the people. Scarcely a dull moment. Extraordinary.
The hilarious bestselling travel book that journeys round areas made famous by Radio 4's Shipping Forecast
'One of those simple yet brilliant ideas' Daily Mail
'Engaging and often very funny' Sunday Times
'A wonderfully eccentric study' Observer
The Shipping Forecast is a curious piece of broadcasting; at once impenetrably baffling yet at the same time reassuringly familiar, most of us have grown up with this sonorous gazetteer firmly planted in our subconscious. But where are these places, and what secrets do they conceal? Charlie Connelly sets off on a journey round the forecast to find out, unearthing the history and culture behind one of Britain's best-loved broadcasting institutions.
More than simply a hilarious travel book, Attention All Shipping ensures that the evocative stanzas of the shipping forecast will remain a mystery no more.
'What a great idea for a book' - Scotland on Sunday
‘If listening to ‘Sailing By’ to the bitter end every night is the surest sign of a Radio 4 addict, then buying Charlie Connelly’s new travel book runs it close’ Independent on Sunday
'His amiable style provides some good jokes in a book that's as gentle and pleasing as the shipping forecast itself' Daily Mail
Author
About Charlie Connelly
Charlie Connelly is a freelance writer specialising in European sport and
travel and has written for BBC Match of the Day magazine, Four Four Two, Time
Out and the award-winning Scottish Sunday Herald Magazine.
