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The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin

by Patrick Barkham

Hardback (unsigned) £20
Published 25th May 2023
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BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEWSTATESMAN AND OBSERVER

The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin


Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously - and sometimes simultaneously - maverick ad-man, seller of stripped pine furniture on the Portobello Road, cider-maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter, and filmmaker. But above all he was the restorer of ancient Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk, the heartland which he shared with a host of visitors, both animal and human, and wrote about - as he wrote about all natural life - with rare attention, intimacy, precision and poetry.

Roger Deakin was unique, and so too is this joyful work of creative biography, told primarily in the words of the subject himself, with support from a chorus of friends, family, colleagues, lovers and neighbours.

Delving deep into Roger Deakin’s library of words, Patrick Barkham draws from notebooks, diaries, letters, recordings, published work and early drafts, to conjure his voice back to glorious life in these pages. To read this book is to listen in to a dream conversation between a writer and those who knew him intimately.

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The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin
by Patrick Barkham

ISBN
9780241471470

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd

Binding
Hardback

Publication date
May 25, 2023

Dimensions
24.0cm x 16.2cm x 3.4cm