My most recent books are listed below and can be purchased at the links and/or ordered in any bookshop.
If you would like signed copies, please contact me directly
Sea Marked: Throwing a Line to a Coastal Past, Saraband 2025
Buy here for £12.99 (plus postage).
‘… Over seven years – afoot and afloat – she travelled nearly 1500 miles over sea, loch, moor, cliff and coastline…as she charted not only her own maritime heritage, but the changing face of coastal communities’. The Sunday Post
‘…opens up a novel way of viewing not just the author’s own psychology, but the psychology of our north Atlantic archipelago in general.’
Roger Cox, Scotsman
‘…a beguiling and inspirational book…the quality of her writing is such that you’ll emerge having shared the experiences she describes.’ Undiscovered Scotland
Doubling Back: Paths trodden in memory, Saraband 2024
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Buy here for £9.99 (plus postage).
‘Cracknell writes to discover and her walks are a multi-dimensional excavation of places – and herself – across time.’ Merryn Glover
‘This is a remarkable book, which will take you much further than the sum of its mileages.’ Brian Morton, The National
‘…with her writing you don’t so much see the landscape as feel it’, Roger Cox, The Scotsman
‘a winning combination of memoir, travelogue and literary meditation, with a few bunions and blisters thrown in for good measure’, Daily Mail
‘…a heartfelt exploration of the mental and physical landscapes that shape our lives.’ Gavin Francis
Writing Landscape, Saraband 2023
Buy here for £8.99 (plus postage)
‘… a fantastic insight into the creative process and the necessity of the wilderness to the construction, presentation and consumption of art.’ The Bottle Imp
‘…a small book but a mighty one…’ Roger Cox, Scotsman
The Other Side of Stone, Taproot Press 2021
‘The Other Side of Stone is marked by its inspiring portraits of unflinching characters, many of them working-class women, standing strong hands on hips in the face of adversity, resisting defeat in the same way as the cursed mill resists its conversion.’ The Bottle Imp
Call of the Undertow, Freight Books 2014/Best Foot Books 2018
Buy a signed, special-edition hardback here £17.50 inc p+p (UK only). Please also send me a message with your name, email address and delivery address.
‘…the friendship between a traumatised woman and an other-worldly boy is strongly grounded in the real world, in the physical land and seascape they both love and the treacherous emotional terrain they negotiate in their disconnected ways.’ Scottish Review of Books
‘A beautifully written, haunting tale of motherhood, guilt, myth and redemption set on the rugged coast of Caithness at Scotland’s furthest edge.’ Fictionophile
Two short story collections are still available: The Searching Glance (2009) and for Life Drawing (2000), please message me directly.
I’ve also written plays, essays and short stories for BBC Radio, some of which you can find on BBC Sounds, and have had many essays and short stories anthologised including in ‘Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland’, 2020 and ‘Cornerstones: Subterranean Writings’, 2018.
My writing for WalkHighlands can be found here.
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