Lido Land

‘Tom Fort has a unique knack of finding new ways to reflect Britain back to ourselves and Lido Land may be his best book yet. Through this watery exploration of lidos, their history, their culture and the people who inhabit them, we learn much about the wider country at large filtered through Fort’s customary wit and erudition. This book deserves to be shelved alongside the likes of Roger Deakin and Charles Sprawson, but if we can thank the author for anything it’s for ending once and for all the ‘lie-do’ versus ‘lee-do’ pronunciation wars.’ * Charlie Connelly - author of Attention All Shipping *

Tom Fort was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. On leaving Oxford he went to work as a reporter at the Slough Observer and the Slough Evening Mail before joining the BBC in 1978 where he worked in the BBC Radio newsroom in London for 22 years. Tom has since carved himself a niche as a successful writer of narrative nonfiction, lifting the lid on various aspects of British culture, tradition and pastimes. His publishing hit travelogue, THE A303: HIGHWAY TO THE SUN became a two-part BBC documentary. He then followed this up by his odyssey to rediscover the spirit of the English southern coast from Essex to Land’s End – CHANNEL SHORE – which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.