(Fourth Estate / Atico de los Libros, Spain / Mare Verlag, Germany / Einuadi, Italy; The Whale, Ecco USA).
Winner of 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. A gripping voyage of discovery into the heart of an obsession.
‘Philip Hoare was long been acclaimed as a brilliantly unconventional writer … This is the book he was born to write, a classic of its kind’, Rachel Cooke, The Observer.
@cineswimmer is one of the coolest people I know t.co/WvLIQXUheX t.co/OtQcdMkkUQ
3 am: it's a dance, this moon and me in the water; a little ritual, swimming in the safety of the dark.
