'Fascinating. Mudlarks are river scavengers, but Lara Maiklem is more like a time traveller'
Guardian
Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour
Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for nearly twenty years, in pursuit of the objects the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hairpins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian toys. What began as a search for solitude came to reveal the story of a city, its people and their lost ways of life.
*The No. 2 Sunday Times bestseller and the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, now with full colour images*
'Enchanting . . . I am quite tempted to join Maiklem on the riverbed looking for treasure'
Sunday Times
'Reveals to us the fascinating and poignant micro-world of London's history'
Hallie Rubenhold, Baillie Gifford Prize-winning author of The Five
'No one has looked at these odd corners since Sherlock Holmes'
Sunday Telegraph
'A quirky and delightful read, wonderfully evocative of London's gloopy, ghost-haunted river'
Daily Mail
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2020
Product details
- Paperback | 336 pages
- 129 x 198 x 25mm | 249g
- 05 Mar 2020
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 1x8pp colour plate section
- 1408889234
- 9781408889237
- 10,747
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