Combs have been a favourite shore find of mine for years. I like that they’re ordinary, personal ...
Rag & Bone: the book & museum
This photograph of my kitchen cupboard was taken three years ago, which is really where Rag and Bone ...
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Travelling Museum of Finds
Following the launch of Rag and Bone, I would have been at festival and bookshop events in 2020, accompanied by a ‘Travelling Museum of Finds’. Partway between a print setter’s tray and a suitcase, it contained beachcombing and mudlarking finds collected while writing the book. Instead, as lockdowns meant events were cancelled, this blog offers a virtual version: a show-and-tell of lost and discarded objects.
Rag and Bone: A History of What We’ve Thrown Away (John Murray, 2020)
‘Lyrical and intriguing’ LITERARY REVIEW
‘Poetic prose and brilliant stories… gloriously and richly strange: a portrait of what we were and what we might become’ PHILIP HOARE