PMJ unveils ‘most ambitious memoir yet’ from The Salt Path’s Raynor Winn
Penguin Michael Joseph has announced it will publish Landlines, the third memoir from author of The Salt Path and The Wild Silence, on 15th September 2022.
Described by the publisher as Raynor Winn’s “most ambitious book yet”, Landlines chronicles the epic journey Winn and her terminally ill husband Moth completed last year, walking from north-west Scotland down the length of Great Britain, to their home in south-west Cornwall.
Nature writer Winn has written a book that is both a love letter to her husband and to Great Britain’s diverse landscape, said the publisher.
“In their continued quest to abate the cruel symptoms of Moth’s disease through long-distance walking and continued exposure to the natural world, Raynor and Moth also seek to understand how we relate to the land and to each other. With trademark luminous prose and hopeful insight Winn asks, in this time of great change, whether we are united enough to see protection of the environment as a priority.
Sales of Winn’s two previous books have together sold more than one million copies across all formats in the UK and internationally, according to PMJ.
The Salt Path was shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Biography Award, shortlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018 and was the winner of the Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize 2019. The Wild Silence was shortlisted for the 2021 Indie Book Awards and the 2021 Wainwright Prize.
The Salt Path has now been sold in 18 territories and The Wild Silence has sold in 11. German and Dutch rights for Landlines have already been acquired by Winn’s option publishers.
Publisher Fenella Bates said: “Raynor Winn is a sublime storyteller and her latest book Landlines is a tour de force. It is a book about lifelong love, health and mortality, the ancient pathways or ‘landlines’ that run across our country and have been walked for centuries; and how sometimes in life, all you can do is just keep putting one foot down in front of the other.”
Winn added: “Landlines resulted from a long and difficult journey, but writing it has been an incredible experience too — one I can’t wait to share with the readers. It has become a beautiful book thanks to the hard work of everyone involved in its publication, especially the team at Penguin Michael Joseph and Jennifer Christie, of Graham Maw Christie.”
