Lead Review

• Book: The Levelling Sea
• Location: Falmouth
• Author: Philip Marsden

“This is a simply splendid book… Marsden’s writing is delightfully honed as well as being profoundly well-researched. The Levelling Sea is a microcosm of British history, contained within its covers like a ship in a bottle… Marsden takes a spyglass to the past and shows us it in vivid colour. Convincing in its detail and exciting in its sweep, this portrait of a port and its people sails deep into the reader’s imagination.”–Philip Hoare, Sunday Telegraph

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