Philip Marsden is the award-winning author of a number of works of travel, fiction and non-fiction, including The Bronski House, The Spirit-Wrestlers, The Levelling Sea and, most recently, The Summer Isles. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and his work has been translated into fifteen languages.
After years of travelling, he now lives on the tidal upper reaches of the River Fal in Cornwall with his wife, children and various boats.
1994: Somerset Maugham Award for The Crossing Place
1996: Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1999: Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for The Spirit-Wrestlers
2013: Honorary Fellowship awarded by Falmouth University
2015: Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year,
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize,
Winner of Holyer an Gof Book Awards Category; The Waterstones Award, The Literary Salver and Non-fiction Category
