Names for the Sea

Paperback edition of Moss' compelling account of her extraordinary year living in Iceland, the year of the volcanic eruption and bank crashes. Steering clear of the usual traveller's cliches, it gives an honest insight into what it's like to uproot your family and your life and move to a country well-known for its insular nature.

SARAH MOSS was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. She is the author of two novels; Cold Earth, and Night Waking, which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykjavik.