‘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, cursed churches and mysterious tombs, ancient lands and prehistoric forests. Now, on a series of walks, Lisa Woollett brings these lost places back to vivid life.
‘An immersive and lyrically personal journey through deep-time and modern tides’
Raynor Winn
‘A haunting evocation of vanishing places
Philip Marsden
‘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
RSL GILES ST AUBYN AWARD FOR NON-FICTION
‘An absorbing memoir… Woollett has a gift for bringing to life the strange borderlands of the foreshore’
Observer
‘Spins narrative gold out of literal dross in this gorgeous story of our waterways’
Evening Standard
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 her books – can be bought through the website’s Sea Gallery. Further information on buying prints here.
The photographs also sell through galleries in Cornwall. This includes Lisa’s local Polperro Arts Foundation, which 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 award-winning books about the sea, beachcombing and mudlarking. Rag and Bone (John Murray, 2020) 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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