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Lara Maiklem FSA (born 1971) is a British author, editor and publishing consultant, known for her writing and speaking on mudlarking. She has been mudlarking since 2012. She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2022.
The Guardian called it "A fascinating insight into the discarded objects and lost things that wash up on the foreshore". The Daily Telegraph considered her description of the fog to be "worthy of Dickens or Joseph Conrad". Literary Review described it as "A lovely, lyrical, gently meandering book, filled with fascinating diversions and detail".
On publication it became an instant Sunday Times Bestseller and was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week in August 2019. Mudlarking was Book of the Month at Foyles, an The Observer Book of the Year 2019, a Daily Express Greatest Read 2019 and an Apple Books pick for 2019. Mudlarking won the 2020 Indie Award for Non Fiction.
In 2021 Bloomsbury published her second book, A Field Guide to Larking: Beachcombing, Mudlarking, Fieldwalking and More, an illustrated guide to how to search for lost objects and how to identify what you find. It was a Waterstones Best Book of 2021 and was shortlisted for the London Archaeology Prize. In 2022 she published a children’s book, Looking for Treasure with Harper Collins and in 2024 Maiklem published her fourth book with Bloomsbury, A Mudlarking Year: Finding Treasure in Every Season.
Maiklem has made radio and television appearances on the BBC, Smithsonian Channel, Travel Channel, Channel 5, NPR and ABC Australia. Maiklem did a TED Talk in October 2019 and a Google Talk in September 2019. She wrote a short series about mudlarking for BBC Radio 3, has written articles for the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Financial Times, Daily Express, BBC Countryfile and The Spectator and has spoken on mudlarking at private events and festivals.
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