UK AT HOME, Rick Smolan & Jennifer Erwitt

The extraordinary book you are holding in your hands was photographed over the course of a single seven–day period by
fifty of the UK's top photojournalists — and tens of thousands of amateur photographers — who fanned out around the nation to shoot nearly 140,000 digital photos of the most important place in their lives: Home.

Assignments focused on the distinctive rituals, traditions, ceremonies and intimate moments that transform our houses and flats, boats and caravans, cottages and mansions into the places we call 'home'.

At a time when the question of what it means to be British has never been more relevant, this fascinating book takes a peek behind our front doors and documents the harmonies and paradoxes of home across the UK at the beginning of the 21st century.

UK at Home also features a stirring introduction by Sir Paul McCartney and specially commissioned essays from a diverse array of our leading literary heavyweights including Alexander McCall Smith, Simon Winchester, Alain de Botton, Blake Morrison, Jackie Kay, Jeanette Winterson and Will Self. These personal and revealing essays reflect on what home life in the UK means to each author. In addition, detailed captions provide a wonderful sense of narrative, placing each image in context, and bringing the photographs to life.