The Tangles
- 11 Feb 2027
- 9781837262496
- £18.99
- 272 pp
- 141×220mm
- 11 Feb 2027
- 9781837262502
- £15.19
- 288 pp
- 11 Feb 2027
- 9781837262519
- £25
- 10 hrs 30 min
In a few words
The third book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Outrun and The Instant is an enchanting love letter to seaweed, showing how one plant can transform the world
In a few words
The third book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Outrun and The Instant is an enchanting love letter to seaweed, showing how one plant can transform the world
In a few words
The third book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Outrun and The Instant is an enchanting love letter to seaweed, showing how one plant can transform the world
An extraordinary exploration of one of natures most overlooked treasures, seaweed, and all the things it provides. A thrilling and fascinating read, in which everything is elemental and everything is adventure
Annie Macmanus
A raw and redemptive account of Amy Liptrot’s return to Orkney. As wind-battered winter turns to tentative spring we shadow her journey through grief - through dark forests of kelp and into the sun-spangled shallows. She has a searing honesty and a keen eye for natural beauty
Cal Flynn
An extraordinary exploration of one of natures most overlooked treasures, seaweed, and all the things it provides. A thrilling and fascinating read, in which everything is elemental and everything is adventure
Annie Macmanus
A raw and redemptive account of Amy Liptrot’s return to Orkney. As wind-battered winter turns to tentative spring we shadow her journey through grief - through dark forests of kelp and into the sun-spangled shallows. She has a searing honesty and a keen eye for natural beauty
Cal Flynn
An extraordinary exploration of one of natures most overlooked treasures, seaweed, and all the things it provides. A thrilling and fascinating read, in which everything is elemental and everything is adventure
Annie Macmanus
A raw and redemptive account of Amy Liptrot’s return to Orkney. As wind-battered winter turns to tentative spring we shadow her journey through grief - through dark forests of kelp and into the sun-spangled shallows. She has a searing honesty and a keen eye for natural beauty
Cal Flynn
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‘Fascinating. Elemental. Extraordinary’ ANNIE MACMANUS
One bright autumn morning while swimming off the east coast of England, Amy Liptrot’s fingers wrap around some fresh fronds of kelp. So begins her encounter with seaweed, one that becomes a quest to understand this magnificent life form. Following her curiosity for this undersea world – and determined not to lose her appetite for adventure even with two small children in tow – she moves north to the remote island of Papay, Orkney. There in the depths of winter her young boys come to experience the island life where she grew up, and as spring comes around they spend more time with their elderly grandfather.
With her adventure-hungry, lyrical and wind-swept style, Amy records how her family grows and recedes in its new coastal nook. Blending ecology, history and memoir, The Tangles chronicles how paying closer attention to the world around her changes the way Amy moves through the tangles of her own life.
More about
the book
‘Fascinating. Elemental. Extraordinary’ ANNIE MACMANUS
One bright autumn morning while swimming off the east coast of England, Amy Liptrot’s fingers wrap around some fresh fronds of kelp. So begins her encounter with seaweed, one that becomes a quest to understand this magnificent life form. Following her curiosity for this undersea world – and determined not to lose her appetite for adventure even with two small children in tow – she moves north to the remote island of Papay, Orkney. There in the depths of winter her young boys come to experience the island life where she grew up, and as spring comes around they spend more time with their elderly grandfather.
With her adventure-hungry, lyrical and wind-swept style, Amy records how her family grows and recedes in its new coastal nook. Blending ecology, history and memoir, The Tangles chronicles how paying closer attention to the world around her changes the way Amy moves through the tangles of her own life.
More about
the book
‘Fascinating. Elemental. Extraordinary’ ANNIE MACMANUS
One bright autumn morning while swimming off the east coast of England, Amy Liptrot’s fingers wrap around some fresh fronds of kelp. So begins her encounter with seaweed, one that becomes a quest to understand this magnificent life form. Following her curiosity for this undersea world – and determined not to lose her appetite for adventure even with two small children in tow – she moves north to the remote island of Papay, Orkney. There in the depths of winter her young boys come to experience the island life where she grew up, and as spring comes around they spend more time with their elderly grandfather.
With her adventure-hungry, lyrical and wind-swept style, Amy records how her family grows and recedes in its new coastal nook. Blending ecology, history and memoir, The Tangles chronicles how paying closer attention to the world around her changes the way Amy moves through the tangles of her own life.
What a joy to plunge into The Tangles - not just into the slippery, little understood, endlessly mesmerising world of seaweed, but into the life of a woman, "moored by a healthy obsession", as she navigates love and loss and the routines of small children amid the battering of sea and wind. To bathe in gorgeous prose and learn so much at the same time is bliss
Sally Magnusson
The Tangles was both soothing and fierce, much like the sea itself. I loved the symmetry between the tangles of seaweed and the tangles of midlife—how so many of us are woven between so many responsibilities, knitting many different things together. Truly beautiful nature writing, led by a sense of warmth, curiosity, and the personal. Also enjoyably full of new facts that made me want to say “did you know?” out loud to whoever was in the room while reading it. Side note: it also made me want to finish the book while taking a seaweed bath
Emma Gannon
The Tangles is the third in Amy Liptrot’s beautiful and intimate trilogy of travelling through life with a deep bond to the more-than-human world. Her writing is alight with all the life force of seaweed itself and brilliantly illustrates how a dedication to curiosity can be a steadying force
Sally Huband
Praise for Amy Liptrot:
[The Outrun is] an astonishingly beautiful book. Amy makes most nature writing seem flat and pedestrian. Her account of her addiction and recovery is electric, sexy, immediate and raw, leaving the reader reeling in her wake . . . This is a luminous, life-affirming book, and I have no doubt that I'll be pressing it into people's hands for years to come
Olivia Laing
What a joy to plunge into The Tangles - not just into the slippery, little understood, endlessly mesmerising world of seaweed, but into the life of a woman, "moored by a healthy obsession", as she navigates love and loss and the routines of small children amid the battering of sea and wind. To bathe in gorgeous prose and learn so much at the same time is bliss
Sally Magnusson
The Tangles was both soothing and fierce, much like the sea itself. I loved the symmetry between the tangles of seaweed and the tangles of midlife—how so many of us are woven between so many responsibilities, knitting many different things together. Truly beautiful nature writing, led by a sense of warmth, curiosity, and the personal. Also enjoyably full of new facts that made me want to say “did you know?” out loud to whoever was in the room while reading it. Side note: it also made me want to finish the book while taking a seaweed bath
Emma Gannon
The Tangles is the third in Amy Liptrot’s beautiful and intimate trilogy of travelling through life with a deep bond to the more-than-human world. Her writing is alight with all the life force of seaweed itself and brilliantly illustrates how a dedication to curiosity can be a steadying force
Sally Huband
Praise for Amy Liptrot:
[The Outrun is] an astonishingly beautiful book. Amy makes most nature writing seem flat and pedestrian. Her account of her addiction and recovery is electric, sexy, immediate and raw, leaving the reader reeling in her wake . . . This is a luminous, life-affirming book, and I have no doubt that I'll be pressing it into people's hands for years to come
Olivia Laing
What a joy to plunge into The Tangles - not just into the slippery, little understood, endlessly mesmerising world of seaweed, but into the life of a woman, "moored by a healthy obsession", as she navigates love and loss and the routines of small children amid the battering of sea and wind. To bathe in gorgeous prose and learn so much at the same time is bliss
Sally Magnusson
The Tangles was both soothing and fierce, much like the sea itself. I loved the symmetry between the tangles of seaweed and the tangles of midlife—how so many of us are woven between so many responsibilities, knitting many different things together. Truly beautiful nature writing, led by a sense of warmth, curiosity, and the personal. Also enjoyably full of new facts that made me want to say “did you know?” out loud to whoever was in the room while reading it. Side note: it also made me want to finish the book while taking a seaweed bath
Emma Gannon
The Tangles is the third in Amy Liptrot’s beautiful and intimate trilogy of travelling through life with a deep bond to the more-than-human world. Her writing is alight with all the life force of seaweed itself and brilliantly illustrates how a dedication to curiosity can be a steadying force
Sally Huband
Praise for Amy Liptrot:
[The Outrun is] an astonishingly beautiful book. Amy makes most nature writing seem flat and pedestrian. Her account of her addiction and recovery is electric, sexy, immediate and raw, leaving the reader reeling in her wake . . . This is a luminous, life-affirming book, and I have no doubt that I'll be pressing it into people's hands for years to come
Olivia Laing
Amy Liptrot
View profileAmy Liptrot is the author of The Outrun and The Instant, which were both Sunday Times bestsellers. She writes columns and reviews for various magazines and newspapers including the Guardian and the Orcadian and presented the BBC Radio 4 series The New Anatomy of Melancholy. The Outrun was awarded the Wainwright Prize and the PEN Ackerley Prize, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. It was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. In 2024 it was adapted by Amy and Nora Fingscheidt into a BAFTA and London Critics’ Circle Film Awards-nominated film starring Saoirse Ronan. Amy’s second book, The Instant, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize.
@amy_may | @amymayyyy
Amy Liptrot
View profileAmy Liptrot is the author of The Outrun and The Instant, which were both Sunday Times bestsellers. She writes columns and reviews for various magazines and newspapers including the Guardian and the Orcadian and presented the BBC Radio 4 series The New Anatomy of Melancholy. The Outrun was awarded the Wainwright Prize and the PEN Ackerley Prize, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. It was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. In 2024 it was adapted by Amy and Nora Fingscheidt into a BAFTA and London Critics’ Circle Film Awards-nominated film starring Saoirse Ronan. Amy’s second book, The Instant, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize.
@amy_may | @amymayyyy
Amy Liptrot
View profileAmy Liptrot is the author of The Outrun and The Instant, which were both Sunday Times bestsellers. She writes columns and reviews for various magazines and newspapers including the Guardian and the Orcadian and presented the BBC Radio 4 series The New Anatomy of Melancholy. The Outrun was awarded the Wainwright Prize and the PEN Ackerley Prize, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. It was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. In 2024 it was adapted by Amy and Nora Fingscheidt into a BAFTA and London Critics’ Circle Film Awards-nominated film starring Saoirse Ronan. Amy’s second book, The Instant, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize.
@amy_may | @amymayyyy
