Organised by longitude, from England, through China to Wales, "Travelling East by Road and Soul" is a collection with displacement at its core, but its power derives from its clinical glance of witness: the olives gone sweet in the sun, the land, 'scarred by mortar', that offers a glimpse into the past, the 'red tiles loose, slipping from the roof'. Each object, each person that populates the broken lines holds a clue to deeper truths. Yet there is a disarming simplicity in evidence too; odes to beaches encountered on travels, a lizard scuttling along a wall, a mother's fraught farewell moment with her son. Voyeur, raconteur, witness, advocate, mother, lover; Camilla Reeve infuses all these roles with a candid warmth that reveals the human side of all that surrounds us - all that we fail, sometimes, to witness.

Camilla Reeve was born in London, and, in spite of extensive travel, it continues to lend a defining undercurrent to her work; she returns often to its problems of homelessness, pollution, noise and isolation within the crowd. She has previously self-published 'Travels of a Spider,' a collection that focuses on human rights, war and the environment. 'Travelling East by Road and Soul' is Camilla's first book for flipped eye publishing.