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Canongate will publish award-winning author and historian Alistair Moffat's latest book, _The North Sea', in print and electronic format in November 2025, with a print edition to follow. This is Moffat's fifth book with Canongate, and chronicles his journey from the Thames Valley to the Orkney Islands, exploring the history of our ancient maritime past to better understand our relationship with the sea. As Moffat writes, the North Sea has long been a vital seaway, home to warring tribes, foreign invaders, vanished civilizations, and a destination for holidaymakers. Its history spans thousands of years, ever since a seismic shift caused the land to recede and water to flow in. Today, the North Sea is still rising, taking up tracts of land while the east coast is collapsing and sinking. Moffat takes us on an epic sweeping historical journey, from the white cliffs of Dover to flooded homes, past rugged grasslands and fault lines left by Brexit, and visiting ancient coastal towns and windswept island monasteries. It tells the story of new arrivals and their aftermath, Roman invasions, the arrival of the Saxons, and Viking raids. But it is also the story of those they met, of the Pictish fortresses and Orkney's stone circles. It is a story of technological advancement, submarine engineering, and weather forecasting. It is the story of huge industries, from whaling cruises and fishing vessels to the North Sea oil boom and offshore wind farms. This is the story of how we shaped the North Sea, and how it will continue to do so; It is above all a story of urgent and inevitable change.