Long Road Words is a UK-based independent author imprint by Phil Rodgers, focusing on travel memoir, narrative writing, and fiction. Books include Out of the Glass Box, a travel memoir covering Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Themes include backpacking, self-discovery, long-term travel, and life transitions.
Travel memoir · Seeking representation

Out of the Glass Box

A year of travel that forces you to decide what comes next.

From Bangkok to Los Angeles and everything in between. This is a memoir of movement, work, distance, and pressure — and of what freedom starts to cost once the excitement wears off.

Manuscript status

Out of the Glass Box

Complete memoir manuscript. Early reader response now live. Seeking representation.

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Other projects

Further work in development, alongside Out of the Glass Box.

Early Reader Response — Out of the Glass Box

Selected responses from the first round of readers.
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About

Narrative travel writing, memoir, and fiction by Phil Rodgers.

Long Road Words is built around one idea: the best travel stories are really stories about people — what movement reveals, what discomfort teaches, and what comes home with you.

  • Observant, grounded storytelling
  • Emotion without overstatement
  • Considered writing with literary edge

Phil Rodgers writes narrative travel memoir with a practical eye and a dry sense of humour — the small moments, the missteps, the learning curve.

His debut memoir Out of the Glass Box documents a year of travel across Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand — from Bangkok to home, via everything in between.

Contact

Three clear routes for readers, press and industry enquiries.

General enquiries

Email: hello@longroadwords.co.uk

Readers, collaborations, and site messages.

Press and review requests

Email: press@longroadwords.co.uk

Bloggers, reviewers, and media requests.

Agent or publisher enquiries

Email: agents@longroadwords.co.uk

Literary agents, publishers, and representation enquiries.