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, sometimes accompanied by a ‘Travelling Museum of Finds’. Halfway between a print setter’s cabinet and a suitcase, this contains beachcombing and mudlarking finds collected while writing the book. Instead, as lockdowns meant I was unable to take it out, this blog offers a virtual version: a show-and-tell of those 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
This photograph of my kitchen cupboard was taken three years ago, which is really where Rag and Bone ...