The Bridge Between Worlds: A Brief History of Connection

A book with a bridge theme but becomes part memoir, part travel writing, part political analysis and part history and geography as the reader visits bridges around the world. Gavin Francis has sorted the bridges by the decade he visited them, as a child in the 1980s as a young man in the 1990s and so on. He tells engaging stories around the bridges, some of them personal and other stories shared with him. It was most interesting when he was writing about a bridge that I know but I also learnt about bridge design and building and how they are used. He references the Brexit referendum at many points and considers the bridge building across Europe in this context. It is a book you can dip in and out of.