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The Essex Way
5/5 Writer Gillian Darley celebrates the unsung and lesser-known delights of mid-Essex.

The Refusal of Place
3/5 Writer Lavinia Greenlaw takes us back to the formative landscape of her childhood.

Washed Up in Essex
2/5 Writer AL Kennedy takes us on a watery journey through the county she now calls home.

Metropolitan Essex
1/5 Billy Bragg explores the London-Essex borderland that fuelled his childhood imagination.

Brightening from the East
4/5 Writer and social historian Ken Worpole introduces us to Essex's radical past.