Rees finds soul in these soulless locations, charting stories and encounters as rich as those found among rolling hills and chocolate box villages. A delight. - The New European
Should be required reading in every motorway service station coffee shop up and down this land - The Psychogeographic Review
A wonderful ramble through the Brexit Britain of today - warts and all. - Elsewhere: A Journal of Place
Essential reading if you are interested in the urban wyrd and how folklore is mutating and developing in modern times. - Folk Horror Revival
Unofficial Britain was my book of 2020 - Paul Cheney, Half Man Half Book
Effortlessly combining urban folklore and personal memoir, history and psychogeography, road-trip narrative and gonzo journalism. - Ends of the World
A fascinating and sometimes unnerving book - Shiny New Books.
Dry and often very funny - Bookmunch
[...] harnesses the personal and philosophical, offering thoughts that are penetrating yet always entertaining [...] A fresh take on vistas some may too readily dismiss. - Never Imitate
The mythical and the municipal collide in a weirdly compelling tour of Britain's built environment - The Financial Times
An appreciation of quotidian, overlooked and sometimes grotty landscapes; part memoir, part 'hauntology', and a stiff dose of nearness and weirdness to counter the tweeness that afflicts some topographical writing. - Will Wiles, author of Care of Wooden Floors