Now this is a lovely thing: an A6 notebook themed around the A6 road, from the brilliant writing/design team Asbury & Asbury, who always produce such elegantly witty and beautiful objects. You can find out more about their work, including the A6 notebook (for which I wrote the foreword), here. An A5 notebook about the A5 is also planned, and an A4 notebook about … well, you get the idea.

‘I think of the M6 Toll, lined with two million

pulped Mills and Boons; how love is buried

in unlooked for places, kept secret as us.’ – Liz Berry, ‘Trucker’s Mate’ in Black Country, p. 17