Lisa Woollett

'An immersive and lyrically personal journey through deep-time and modern tides' – RAYNOR WINN 'Wondrous, elegant and haunting, Lost to the Sea is a fascinating alternative history of the fractured, flooded and eroded edges of Britain and Ireland' – PHILIP HOARE Medieval kingdoms. Notorious pirate towns. Drowned churches. Crocodile-infested swamps. On a series of coastal walks, Lisa Woollett takes us...

‘Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book’ — Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and mudlarking, collecting curious fragments of the past: from Roman tiles and Tudor thimbles, to Victorian buttons and plastic soldiers. In a series of walks from the Thames, out to...

'An immersive and lyrically personal journey through deep-time and modern tides' RAYNOR WINN 'Wondrous, elegant and haunting, Lost to the Sea is a fascinating alternative history of the fractured, flooded and eroded edges of Britain and Ireland' PHILIP HOARE 'Beautiful . . . Woollett paints vividly the day-to-day lives of past peoples' TLS Medieval kingdoms. Notorious pirate towns. Drowned churches....