It’s less than three weeks to go until The Lie of the Land, by the BLC’s Ian Vince, is published by Macmillan. A kind of unofficial BLC manual and a rough ‘under-the-field guide’ to Britain, The Lie of the Land was written during 2009 as Ian travelled back and forth across Britain to tell the truly extraordinary story of how our beautiful landscape was formed.

The Lie of the Land is published on the June 4 and Ian will be talking about it here and there over the next few weeks - keep an eye on the BLC website for more details of events in London and Devon among others, but in the meantime, we can reveal that he will be on BBC Radio 4’s travel magazine, Excess Baggage, on the morning of June 5.

You can order the book in all the usual places including Amazon, Waterstones and your local bookshop.