SWORDFISH AND THE STAR (CORNWALL / COAST)

This remarkable book looks behind the scenes of the Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall, catching the stories of a whole community, but especially those still working this last frontier: the Cornish fishermen. It is an arresting tapestry of a place we thought we knew; the precarious reality of life in Cornwall today emerges from behind our idyllic holiday snaps and picture postcards. Even the quaint fishermen's pubs on the quay at Newlyn, including the Swordfish and its neighbour the Star, turn out to be places where squalls can blow up, and down again, in an instant.