Recommended: The Shoal Ground

The Shoal Ground by Des Hannigan
Part of the THE ATLANTIC CORNWALL TRILOGY

About the books

The Shoal Ground is the third volume of Des Hannigan’s Atlantic Cornwall Trilogy. The book follows the same theme of its companion volumes, The Almost Island and The Long Deep through prose pieces and occasional verses about the sea cliffs of West Cornwall and about life on the fishing grounds around the Isles of Scilly and beyond – a colourful and authentic glimpse of the world below the cliff edge and on the sometimes unforgiving Atlantic. 

About the author

Travel and outdoor writer Des Hannigan’s, The Atlantic Trilogy books, The Almost Island, The Long Deep, and The Shoal Ground will delight and inspire lovers of Cornwall beyond the packed beaches and the tourist honeypots. These collections of prose and verse take the reader beyond the cliff edge and out to the genuinely ‘wild’ fishing waters of the Celtic Sea and around the Isles of Scilly, to a Cornwall shaped by its defining element, the Atlantic. All in the company of those whose work place is the sea and those whose playgrounds are the great cliffs that contain Cornwall-like castle walls. Fishermen, lifeboatmen, lighthouse keepers, coastguards, rock climbers, writers, and artists, take the reader to an adventurous world amidst the compelling beauty and drama of a Cornwall rarely seen.

The complete trilogy of books by Des is available in the The Terrace Gallery Cornwall shop

Paperback: 119 pages
Publisher: Scryfa (2021)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-9997598-9-6

Previous book recommendations:
A Degree of Uncertainty by Nicola K Smith
Zed and the Cormorants by Clare Owen
The Draw of the Sea by Wyl Menmuir
The Lip by Charlie Carroll
Mothers Boy by Patrick Gale

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