Philip Marsden is the author of several works of travel writing, fiction and non-fiction, including The Bronski House, The Spirit Wrestlers and The Levelling Sea. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and his work has been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Cornwall.
Books in order of publication:
Historical and travel writing
A Far Country: travels in Ethiopia, Century, 1990
The Crossing Place: a journey among the Armenians, HarperCollins, 1993,
The Bronski House: a return to the Borderlands, HarperCollins, 1995
The Spirit-Wrestlers: a Russian journey, HarperCollins, 1998 (Thomas Cook Travel Book Award 1999)
The Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance, HarperCollins, 2005
The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy, HarperPress, 2007
The Levelling Sea: The Story of a Cornish Haven in the Age of Sail, HarperPress, 2011
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place, Granta, 2014
The Summer Isles: A Voyage Of The Imagination, Granta, 2019
Under a Metal Sky: A Journey through Minerals, Greed and Wonder, Granta 2025
Novels
The Main Cages, Flamingo, 2002
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