Philip Marsden

Philip Marsden is a writer and journalist. He is the author of several works of travel writing and non-fiction, including most recently Rising Ground (published by Granta in 2014), The Levelling Sea and The Barefoot Emperor, and a novel, The Main Cages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Cornwall with his wife and children.

Publications

Travel Writing

The Summer Isles

Philip Marsden

£20.00

Travel Writing

Rising Ground

Philip Marsden

£9.99

Philip Marsden on Granta.com

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Trees, Disease

Philip Marsden

‘The greatest problem with the recent enthusiasm for tree-planting is disease. Large-scale projects mean large-scale movement of tree stock, which in turn has helped spread a number of highly contagious arboreal pathogens.’