@GyrosGeier @cstross @MishaVanMollusq I’m utterly convinced that book references the A1(M) deliberately.

@GyrosGeier @cstross @MishaVanMollusq I don't know if Hamilton has any connection to the localities connected by the (real) A1(M), but when "The Great North Road" came out he did a double-act signing tour with Stephen Baxter, who (probably coincidentally) does.