Food on the Move is a colourful and informative itinerary of Britain’s motorway pit-stops, a road-show of everywhere and nowhere places. The book is written by David Lawrence with Alain de Botton, Laurie Taylor, Iain Borden and Sancha Briffa. It is acclaimed by Will Self, Martin Parr, Iain Sinclair and Robert Venturi.

Service areas are fascinating locations: helping us understand our tastes, habits, behaviours, and the way in which government, business and designers work to tell us, or to imagine what we want and need in a concentrated twenty minute break from the real purpose of being out on the road: to go somewhere else. They have become places where Britishness still resides, where design and everyday life came together in subtle, sometimes unexpected ways. The environment of service areas has been the scene of community meetings, family gatherings, paid-for clutches, trading in goods, romantic meetings, great solitude, cultural happenings, sports star appearances, fortitude and loss. It is a place haunted by writers and film-makers, artists and drifters. All are included in this book, alongside a host of wonderful images underpinned by detailed research and contributions from individuals who have never before told their story. With Food on the Move, a trip to the services is  unmissable and entertaining, an informative and disturbing voyage of discovery.

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