Author: Clare Gogerty

  It was exciting, and not a little nerve-wracking, to kick off proceedings in the Books Tent at Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, earlier this month. I was there to chat to...

12 August, 2019

[caption id="attachment_2021" align="aligncenter" width="225"] A box full of lovelies[/caption] Much excitement today as Marinel, the local DPD delivery man, arrived with this box containing my author copies of 'Beyond The Footpath:...

15 March, 2019

[caption id="attachment_2014" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Formby beach[/caption] I'm always really pleased when the National Trust ask me to write a guidebook about one of its stretches of coast. The NT looks after...

15 March, 2019

  This is the cover of my new book which, although I've just finished writing it, is already on Amazon. So that means it's really going to be published next year....

06 October, 2018

Anyone with a compulsion for hand-crafted things, should head to From Britain With Love a website/directory of the best craftspeople in the UK. It is is a roll call of makers...

02 April, 2018

The handsome cover on my  new book is by Brian Cook Batsford, the illustrator and publisher behind the Batsford guides of the 1930s. These books which captured the essence of...

03 September, 2017

This is a busy time of year for the Gower, that especially lovely peninsula in South Wales. Its glorious beaches attract many visitors, drawn by their expansive sandiness and surf-able...

06 August, 2017

The end of 2016 saw me heading to Cornwall's Tin Coast – that far-flung and ragged part of West Cornwall that is peppered with the workings of defunct tin mines...

03 February, 2017