Exploring Great Britain's cultural and geographic diversity, this series pairs fiction and nonfiction accounts by both new and established writers. Each volume offers a chance to get beyond the tourist destinations, as contemporary British authors reflect on the meaning of home.

Capturing the different pace and mood of England's South Coast, award-winning BBC broadcaster Gemma Cairney's Margate Calling is an intimate and inspiring account of living in a quiet seaside town. Brighton-based playwright Judy Upton contributes the short novel Maisie and Mrs Webster, a bold, fiercely funny story about a bedridden young woman who longs to see the sea, meanwhile keeping company with a spider.