Mudlarking

Lost and Found on the River Thames

By: Lara Maiklem

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eBook | 18 August 2019 | Edition Number 1

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Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2020

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.

About the Author

Lara Maiklem moved from her family's farm to London in the 1990s and has been mudlarking along the River Thames for fifteen years. She now lives with her family on the Kent coast within easy reach of the river, which she visits as regularly as the tides permit. This is her first book.

Industry Reviews

'Enchanting . . . I am quite tempted to join Maiklem on the riverbed looking for treasure'
Sunday Times

'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

'Mudlarks are river scavengers, but Lara Maiklem is more like a time traveller. Her prose has none of the self-conscious sensibility that defines contemporary nature writing; her thoughtful sentences read as though she were talking to herself. There is a great deal to learn from these pages, not least the insight that finding lost things is the best way of losing yourself. It is, above all, her wisdom that makes Lara Maiklem such restful company'
Guardian