Why do the English love to be beside the seaside?
A gloriously unorthodox social history of a nation of outsiders, WISH YOU WERE HERE explores how a coastline peppered with quasi-Oriental piers makes us quintessentially English - from Agatha Christie to the Prince Regent, Billy Butlin and Brighton Rock.
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Take your holiday snap to the front page!
The Times and Sceptre are looking for an image that best sums up the English relationship with the seaside, and the winning entry will be used as the cover for the paperback of WISH YOU WERE: ENGLAND ON SEA. Full details about how to enter are below the cut.
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