Top 10 road novels | James Yorkston
Oct 12, 2022
4 minutes
As a travelling musician, I spend a fair bit of time on the road, and the possibilities such a lifestyle brings – a new bed every night, new friends every evening (hopefully) – makes it an obvious scenario in which to place a novel. Character not working? Leave them in the gas station. Need some light relief? Meet a politician in the lavatories of the next Costa. So it’s no surprise that road trips have been used as a storytelling device for such a long time. My new novel, The Book of joins this long tradition of road novels (although I didn’t think of it as such while it was being written), which has made me look back at the sub-genre with some interest.
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