Lamorna Ash

Lamorna Ash is a British writer. She is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and author of Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town.[1][2]

Lamorna Ash
OccupationWriter
EducationSt Paul's Girls' School
Alma materUniversity of Oxford, University College London

Ash attended St Paul's Girls' School and read English at Oxford University before receiving an MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology from University College London.[3] After university, Ash went to Newlyn in Cornwall to learn about their fishing community.[4]

Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear is due to be published by Bloomsbury in April 2020.[5][6][7] Ash's book was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'.[8][9][10] William Dalrymple wrote that her book: 'marks the birth of a new star of non-fiction.'[11]

References
  1. Cooke, Rachel (2020-03-29). "Lamorna Ash: adventures on a Cornish trawler". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  2. Bloomsbury.com. "Dark, Salt, Clear". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  3. "OPPIDAN EDUCATION — Our Mentor, Lamorna". Oppidan Education. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  4. "Extract: Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish fishing town - Lamorna Ash". TLS. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  5. "Sea sure - Social & cultural studies". TLS. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  6. "Bloomsbury buys Cornish fishing village book after TLS article | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  7. Cooke, Rachel (2019-12-29). "Nonfiction to look out for in 2020". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
  8. "BBC Radio 4 - Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, by Lamorna Ash". BBC. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  9. "BBC Sounds - Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, by Lamorna Ash - Available Episodes". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  10. Reynolds, Gillian. "Radio picks of the week — March 22". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
  11. "Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town - Lamorna Ash; | Foyles Bookstore". Foyles. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
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