Ben Wilson

Ben Wilson is a well-established writer and historian. Coastlines is his eighth book. Among many plaudits and successes, What Price Liberty? won the Somerset Maugham Award, Empire of the Deep was a Sunday Times bestseller and Metropolis and Urban Jungle have sold in over thirty territories. He is a regular contributor to broadcast and print media, including The Guardian, GQ, and The Spectator, among others. He lives on the North Sea coast of Essex where he walks, canoes, and sails on the muddy margin of land and sea.