A Mudlarking Year : Finding Treasure in Every Season, Lara Maiklem

A Mudlarking Year : Finding Treasure in Every Season, Lara MaiklemNew Paperback For over two decades, Lara Maiklem has been scouring the banks of the tidal Thames looking for objects lost or discarded that tell forgotten stories. In this charming sequel to the bestselling Mudlarking, Lara widens her search beyond the river and reflects on life lived post pandemic, reminding us that its possible to draw meaning in the most unlikely of places. As she searches the foreshore through the changing seasons, she is at times

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Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books

to argue that after twenty years of statistics and slogans it’s time for solutions that aren’t just radical but plausible and achievable as well

Walk with Annie as she lays quartz stones in the river to reflect the moonlight and attract salmon

but when life intervened

Peter Jackson's trilogy of films based on this single work has helped to create a whole new generation of Tolkien fans

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They present new insights on the chronology

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and Proust whose symptoms and sensitivities gradually narrowed his life to the space of his cork-lined bedroom

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Not to mention my Tale of the Unexpected and my very own Vagina Monologue