Atomic Albion: Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations
Tom Bolton
360pp / 135mm x 195mm
20 black & white Illustrations
Unlimited paperback & limited hardback edition of 300
Paperback / Hardback
£18.99 / £30.00
All hardback copies will come with a signed bookplate and a risograph print by Error Press.
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No one has revealed more occluded or buried sources of fascination to me than Tom Bolton, and with this book he has excelled himself.
- Tom Holland
Awesome in the true sense of the word, Bolton’s brilliant and disturbing nuclear travelogue manages to be elegiac as well as terrifying.
- Phil Baker
The United Kingdom has sixteen nuclear power stations. Most go under the radar, but their presence is enormous, both physically and culturally. They divide opinion like nothing else. Are they relics of a past era, or a crucial part of our futures? Are they cathedrals of science or temples of doom?
Atomic Albion is a journey around Britain’s nuclear power stations and the country itself. From the Essex marshes to the Anglesey coast, from the Dungeness shingle to the far north of Scotland, Tom Bolton explores how nuclear sites shape the places around them, and enters the awesome world of nuclear power and weapons.
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About the author
Tom Bolton is a writer and researcher. He writes books and essays about cities, places, landscape and culture.
He is the author of Vanished City: London’s Lost Neighbourhoods, London’s Lost Rivers: A Walker’s Guide and Camden Town: Dreams of Another London.
