Frontierlands

Communities in Britain's forgotten outposts, abandoned by the centres of power, are taking matters into their own hands: reclaiming and rebuilding their spaces so as to be best prepared for whatever the future brings.

Hazel Sheffield is a business reporter and economics correspondent. Her work can be found in national and international publications including the Guardian, the Economist, Follow the Money and the Financial Times. Before going freelance, she covered derivatives for Euromoney and worked as the business editor of the Independent. She left the Independent in the summer of 2016 to start a grant-funded project called farnearer.org, documenting self-organising communities and economic alternatives in the UK. After a decade of reporting, that work has come together as Frontierlands, her first book. She lives with her family in Hastings.