Travelling Museum of Finds
Following the launch of Rag and Bone, I would have been at festival and bookshop events this summer, 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 I’ve been unable to take it out, this blog offers a virtual version: a show-and-tell of lost and discarded objects.

Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We’ve Thrown Away (John Murray, 2020)
‘Through watery debris, Lisa Woollett conjures up, in poetic prose and brilliant stories, the spin cycle of history. In Rag and Bone, she elegantly picks her way through the trash, to reveal something gloriously and richly strange: a portrait of what we were and what we might become’ PHILIP HOARE