

Paperback out April 2025
‘Wondrous, elegant and haunting’
Philip Hoare
‘Beautiful… Woollett paints vividly the day-to-day lives of past peoples’
Times Literary Supplement
Just off our shores lies a ghost coastline, populated with fishing villages and legendary pubs, drowned churches and Iron Age settlements, medieval port towns and prehistoric forests.
‘An immersive and lyrically personal journey through deep-time and modern tides’
Raynor Winn
‘Hugely enjoyable… a charming mosaic of history, myth and imagination’
Sara Wheeler
PREVIOUS BOOKS

BRITISH BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION AWARDS
‘The British coastline encapsulated in a treasure trove of a book’
Guardian
‘No-one who has ever been awed by the sea, or struck by its beauty, will fail to be thrilled by Lisa Woollett’s wonderful Sea Journal’
Philip Marsden

HOLYER AN GOF PUBLISHER’S AWARD
‘A wonderful book… a cabinet of curiosities’
BBC Coast’s Nick Crane
‘Quite simply the closest I have ever seen anyone come to describing the seashore in the way I feel the seashore’
Sir Tim Smit

PHOTOGRAPHY
For twelve years Lisa worked as a photographer, with past clients including the Independent on Sunday, Daily Telegraph and Observer.
Prints of her sea photographs – including many from the books – can be bought through the website’s Gallery.
The photographs also sell through galleries in Cornwall. This includes Lisa’s local Polperro Arts Foundation, which always has framed and mounted prints, and signed copies of her books.
About Lisa
Author & photographer
Lisa grew up on eroding cliffs on the Isle of Sheppey, with stories of local pubs and churches that had been lost to the sea. She is the author of several award-winning books about the sea, beachcombing and mudlarking. Her memoir Rag and Bone (John Murray) won the Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-fiction. For the past 20 years she has lived with her family on the south coast of Cornwall, in a house shared with buckets and boxes of beach finds.
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