My new book Flint Country: a stone journey will be published on July 10th. Here’s a link to the blog post I wrote about it for the publisher, Saraband.
Flint Country: a stone journey
Hidden places, secret histories and unsung geography from the east of England and beyond
East of Elveden 
We are very much looking forward to your new book, dear Laurence.
Thanks Klausbernd. It’s on the way!
We are very much looking forward to it 🙂
Can’t wait for my signed copy
It’s in the post, chum.
it looks brilliant have just ordered a copy!
Many thanks, Anne.
I have really enjoyed reading Flint Country. At first I dipped into church chapters and then I did the right thing and read it all through. It’s well structured and contains so much insight into places I know well. Well done
I mean to continue the above…I was also interested in the Potosi, Bolivia part. I remember going down that mine with a carbide light and felt very scared and claustrophobic when I could see noone in my party. It was a terrible but necessary visit to the Cerro Rico and helped understanding of Spanish colonisation.
I particularly enjoyed the piece on flint and art with reference to Moore and Hepburn, not to mention Crome’s still life.
Congratulations, Laurence. Well done
Thank you so much, Paul, for your kind words. I didn’t want to write solely about churches, or archaeology or geology for that matter. What I was aiming at was a much broader cultural and natural history of the stone. The chapters in a way can be seen as stand alone essays, although I really wanted them to connect with each other in some way. And yes, wasn’t Cerro Rico a dreadful place for those miners? I realise that the link with flint was perhaps a bit tenuous but I wanted to stress the jeopardy involved in venturing underground in this way.
‘What I was aiming at was a much broader cultural and natural history of the stone. The chapters in a way can be seen as stand alone essays, although I really wanted them to connect with each other in some way.’
You did that very well and certainly engaged me. Thank you again.
I’m really glad that the book engaged you. That means a lot to me. Many thanks.