Rag and Bone (John Murray, 2020)
Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-fiction
‘Lyrical and intriguing’
Literary Review
‘Poetic prose and brilliant stories… gloriously and richly strange’
Philip Hoare
From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London’s barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, Rag and Bone traces the story of our rubbish, and, through it, our history of consumption. … (MORE, including reviews and purchase links)
Sea Journal
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The Rubery Book Award
British Book Design & Production Awards
‘The British coastline encapsulated in a treasure trove of a book’
The 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
One of the Guardian’s ‘Top ten books about women and the sea‘. This beautifully illustrated book brings together a year’s wanderings along Britain’s shores with stories of their natural history, geology and evolution — from ancient myth to current science … (MORE)
Sea and Shore Cornwall: common and curious findings
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Holyer an Gof Publishers’ Award
‘Quite simply the closest I have ever seen anyone come to describing the seashore in the way I feel the seashore.’
Sir Tim Smit, Eden Project
‘A wonderful book… a cabinet of curiosities’
BBC Coast’s Nick Crane
A collection of photographs, discoveries and natural history that is by turn atmospheric, quirky and fascinating. Many of the photographs are glimpses of the mercurial sea around Cornwall’s shores in all its moods, from jewel-like pools to waves powering into … (MORE)
Treasure from the Sea
Signed copy, free postage, £12.99 (Mabecron Books, 2018).
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Best Children’s Book, Holyer an Gof Publishers’ Awards
Children’s beachcombing book, beautifully illustrated by the artist Sarah McCartney… (MORE)
