This new collection of short and some longer stories by Mark Valentine explores 'the Real Map of England', the strange corners of a haunted country. Why is there a Roman altar to the god of the crossroads in a Herefordshire church? What is the significance of a book of tide tables and a shack on the Lincolnshire coast? What is it that waves from a motorway bridge? Where are the 'veiled republics', the citadels of an alternative history? What happens...