'Beautifully crafted.' Robert Colls, The New Statesman 'Jake Morris-Campbell's beautiful book is a pilgrimage charting his family's Northumbrian heritage. Between the salt and the ash is simultaneously poetic and epic in Morris-Campbell's sweep of the region's history, language and landscape. After reading this, you will want nothing more than to take the journey yourself.' Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Chancellor of Durham University 'A tender Northumbrian camino through England's own land of saints and scholars.' Dan Jackson, author of The Northumbrians 'This is a beautiful and significant book. Its blend of history, poetry and travelogue gives a complex and compelling vision of the strange and lovely land of the north. It should be read by us all, wherever we live.

' David Almond, author of Skellig 'Beautifully written, Between the salt and the ash melds history, industry and memories into a moving portrait of the land between Tyne and Wear.' Brian Groom, author of Northerners: A History 'Our heritage isn't just about mining and nor is this book. The author expertly shows how the region is made up of layers of history, identity, work etc, and the way that sculpture, art, poetry etc can represent the region and its identity.' Peter Sagar, North East Bylines 'This is a fabulous book. It is a work of sacramental theology, although the author might not see it that way: it celebrates the past, intensely observes the present, and so points hopefully to the future. It makes me want to go back up north and stay there.' Peter McGeary, Church Times.