Strands
A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2013
Summary
Featured on Radio 4 Book of the Week in 2012. This is the ultimate beachcomber’s book from a prize-winning poet and natural storyteller. Think Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin.
Strands describes a year’s worth of walking on the ultimate beach – inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations – mermaid’s purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner.
This is a series of meditations prompted by…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099532439 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099532433 |
| Author: | Jean Sprackland |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2013 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
A fine book… Transparent, undeceived prose
A fine book… Transparent, undeceived prose – Kate Kellaway * Guardian *
Compelling … well-contextualised, sharply-observed, clued up, environmentally aware and deeply researched * Independent *
With clarity and candour, in the natural voice of a modern storyteller, she tells what she sees at the intersection of herself and whatever is delivered to her by the tide * The Times *
Sprackland has a wonderfully curious eye * Financial Times *
Simply gorgeous … One of the finest piece of writing, nature or otherwise, to emerge this year * Big Issue *
If a book can have the appeal of a really good long walk, this one does * Daily Mail *
Lovely travelogue * Metro *
Elegant * Economist *
A delightful book – Sally Morris * Daily Mail *
About The Author
Jean Sprackland
Jean Sprackland is the author of five poetry collections, including Tilt, which won the 2007 Costa Poetry Award. She has also published two works of non-fiction, Strands- A Year of Discoveries on the Beach, which won the 2012 Portico Prize, and These Silent Mansions- A Life in Graveyards in 2020. Her forthcoming titles are Night Vision, a non-fiction exploration of darkness, in November 2025, and Goyle, Chert, Mire, her latest poetry collection, in April 2026.
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