It's certainly not beach reading, unless you can find a really nasty, shingly beach.

It takes the form of a wildly digressive journey that, beginning with the author hunched over his handlebars, pedalling furiously out through bleak suburbs towards the shingly beaches of the Southampton shore, moves onwards, breasting the waters of history, culture, landscape and imagination.

Located on the Suffolk heritage coastline, it has a pretty village centre, loads of cafés and restaurants, and a shingly beach dotted with fisherman's huts.

The Sea Inside takes the form of a wildly digressive - and often highly erratic - journey that, beginning with the author hunched over his handlebars, pedalling furiously out through bleak, sodium-lit suburbs towards the shingly beaches of the Southampton shore, moves onwards, breasting the waters of history, culture, landscape and imagination.