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# The last boat: a ”Shorelines” soundscape
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article-2042jsp/
- Published: 2004-08-11T23:08:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:49:38.000Z
- Author: Candida Clark
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 19:17

Out to sea from Staithes, North Yorkshire

Sally Heywood recorded *Bringing the Last Boat Home* as part of the BBC’s IGNITE programme.

[Click here to listen](#)

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“[*The Mariner’s Star*](http://www.hodderheadline.co.uk/index.asp?url=bookdetails.asp&book=35502&best=&ref=opendemocracy.net) is a love story and, like all great love stories, a death story... a treat to be lingered over... the writing is so evocative that it feels like being inside a painting...” (Geraldine Bedell, *The Observer*)

[Listen to Candida Clark read Chapter 1 of *The Mariner’s Star*](#)

North Yorkshire coast

[Click here for Chapter 2 of *The Mariner’s Star*Staithes, North YorkshireCandida Clark will be reading from her forthcoming novel *A House of Light* (](#)[Headline Press, January 2005](http://www.hodderheadline.co.uk/index.asp?url=bookdetails.asp&book=54328&best=&ref=opendemocracy.net)) at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. For more information, and to book tickets, [click here](http://programme2004.edbookfest.co.uk/events/event-297?ref=opendemocracy.net).

*Photographs taken by Candida Clark*