The definitive architecture, design and cultural history of the motorway service area, its places and its people. Fully illustrated throughout with forewords by Joan Bakewell and Michael Bracewell, writing by Richard Wentworth, and essays by Alain de Botton, Iain Borden, Laurie Taylor and Sancha Briffa.
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Consistently illuminating and readable, the overall effect of Food on the Move is stumbling across a superb and unheralded documentary on BBC4. --Icon Magazine February 2011
This book by motorway service enthusiast David Lawrence looks at the fascinating, weird and wonderful world of the most underated British architecture around. You'll never look at a motorway services again after reading this fantastic book.
--motortorque.com December 2010
This book by motorway service enthusiast David Lawrence looks at the fascinating, weird and wonderful world of the most underated British architecture around. You'll never look at a motorway services again after reading this fantastic book.
--motortorque.com December 2010
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Little is ever committed to print about roadside diners, and in particular those staggeringly busy and utterly fascinating motorway service stations that serve more meals to more people than probably any other form of eaterie. As a nation of road users, we swarm to these curiously artless places. We really ought to know more about motorway buildings, of their ambitions, their designers, and their special, if ineffably banal place in our daily lives. In this book, David Lawrence is our guide, and a very good guide too because his research is thorough and enquiring, his tone measured, yet his style lively and driven through with intelligent rather than patronising humour. David Lawrence is the kind of guide who makes such all to often crass places as utterly absorbing as in fact they really are.
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By E. Daniels
Format:Paperback
I bought this for my hubby, he has not put it down since, he says it is amazing. Roads and travel are his thing- he's obsessed so book about motorway service is just up his street! LOL!
However, the book itself is not very well made and is coming away from the spine
However, the book itself is not very well made and is coming away from the spine
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By David
Format:Paperback
A really good read, lots of great phots and interesting words about motorways, design, food and people. And this book is available! Its not really out of stock (that's just a message), so please order one today and you'll get it very quickly.
0 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This is not really a review and I don't wish to be unfair to anyone, but I suspect the above 'review' has been submitted by the book's author. I'd love to own this book and have ordered a copy. However, it clearly isn't in stock and you won't receive a copy quickly - I ordered my copy on February 9th and I'm still waiting.
Perhaps the Highways Agency have cursed the publication of this book and caused the delay, but someone clearly needs to get their act together here.
Perhaps the Highways Agency have cursed the publication of this book and caused the delay, but someone clearly needs to get their act together here.
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