Noreen Masud's memoir, "A Flat Place," explores the understated beauty of the UK's flat landscapes. Through personal and philosophical reflections, Masud highlights how geography shapes identity and perception. Her eloquent prose reveals the calm and introspection these landscapes inspire, inviting readers to find beauty in the unexpected.

Noreen Masud is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. Her memoir-travelogue, A Flat Place (Hamish Hamilton [Penguin] and Melville House Press, 2023), was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award, the Jhalak Prize, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Books are my Bag Reader Awards.

Join Dr Alexandra Jellicoe in conversation with Noreen Masud to discuss the healing power of landscape