Raynor Winn
Raynor Winn, the million copy international bestselling author of The Salt Path, The Wild Silence and Landlines
Million copy international bestseller and prize-winning author of three Sunday Times bestsellers: The Salt Path, The Wild Silence and Landlines, Raynor Winn, is also an inspirational speaker. The film adaptation of The Salt Path will be released in UK cinemas on 24 April 2025.
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Biography
Raynor Winn is the million copy international bestseller and prize-winning author of three Sunday Times bestsellers: The Salt Path, The Wild Silence and Landlines, she is also an inspirational speaker.
In 2024, The Salt Path was listed at number 37 on The Sunday Times top 100 books of the past 50 years, having spent 102 weeks in the bestseller list.
Since travelling the South West Coastal Path, she has become a regular long-distance walker and writes about nature, homelessness and the health benefits of walking. The Salt Path has spent over 100 weeks in The Sunday Times Bestseller List. Raynor won the Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize in 2019 and has been shortlisted for numerous other awards including the Costa, the Wainwright and the Stanfords Travel Writing awards. Raynor is also a prolific speaker.
Her latest title, LANDLINES, was a number 1 Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback.
The film adaptation of the THE SALT PATH, began filming in June 2023 with The Crown and Sex Education’s Gillian Anderson set to portray Raynor, and Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs to play Moth.
Read Gillian Anderson’s interview with Variety about THE SALT PATH book and film here.
‘When I read the book, I could not get it out of my system for weeks,” Anderson tells Variety. “It changed my perspective on homeless individuals, on people living rough, on the fact that any one of us at any time can become homeless and destitute’ — Gillian Anderson, Actor, author and producer
Awards
Winner of the 2019 RSL Christopher Bland Prize.
Nominated for the 2018 Costa biography of the year.
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel memoir of the year 2019.
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize in 2018 and 2021.
Shortlisted for the 2021 Indie Book Awards.
The Salt Path was the number one bestselling book of 2019 in UK independent bookstores.
In September 2020, Raynor Winn's second book, The Wild Silence, joined The Sunday Times bestseller lists alongside her debut title, The Salt Path, making Raynor a double Sunday Times Bestseller.
Over one million copies of The Salt Path and The Wild Silence sold across all formats in the UK and internationally.
Since its publication, The Salt Path paperback has spent an incredible ninety weeks in the Sunday Times Top Ten.
In October 2023, The Salt Path French edition won both the Prix des lecteurs de la Bibliothèque municipale de Dijon and Toison d’or du livre d’aventure.
All three of Raynor's books are Spiegel bestsellers in Germany (the German bestseller list)
Books
The Salt Path
THE SALT PATH is an honest and life-affirming true story about love, home and the healing power of nature. A number 1 Sunday Times bestseller and now an international bestseller, The Salt Path, published by Michael Joseph in April 2018 is available in hardback, paperback, Ebook and Audiobook (read by the author). It is also published around the world in 18 languages.
In 2024, The Salt Path was listed at number 37 on The Sunday Times top 100 books of the past 50 years, having spent 102 weeks in the bestseller list.
Rights sold: Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Large Print, Russian, Polish, Portugese, Slovenian, Spanish, Taiwanese, U.S.
The Wild Silence
THE WILD SILENCE, published to great acclaim in September 2020, became Winn's second number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller and has sold in 11 languages. It was shortlisted for both the 2021 Indie Book Awards and the 2021 Wainwright Prize.
Raynor Winn's post about THE WILD SILENCE on the Waterstones blog.
Rights sold: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, Large Print, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Slovenian, U.S.
Film and TV: optioned
All other rights: Please contact Graham Maw Christie
Landlines
LANDLINES is Raynor Winn’s latest book, published in hardback on 15th September 2022 and in paperback on 11th May 2023 by Michael Joseph. In this memoir, Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth’s health is declining and getting worse by the day, and she knows of only one cure. It worked once before, but will he - can he - set out with her on another healing walk?
The Cape Wrath Trail is over two hundred miles of gruelling terrain through Scotland’s remotest mountains and lochs. But the lure of the wilderness and the beguiling beauty of the awaiting glens draw them northwards. Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour and their hope is that it can work its magic again.
As they set out on their incredible thousand-mile journey back to the familiar shores of the South-west Coast Path, Raynor and Moth map the landscape of an island nation facing an uncertain path ahead.
In Landlines, Raynor records in luminous prose the strangers and friends, wilderness and wildlife they encounter on the way – it’s a journey that begins in fear but can only end in hope.
Read the announcement about LANDLINES on The Bookseller.
'A tale of remarkable resilience and nature writing at its best' - the i
“Another heartwarming odyssey, this time on one of the wildest walks in Britain… Raynor’s is a voice of empathy and integrity” - Guardian
'Profoundly human ... rare vision and compassion' - Spectator
Winn tells how they set out to tackle the 200-plus miles of the Cape Wrath Trail in north-west Scotland - and ended up walking all the way back to their home in Cornwall, a journey of 1,000 miles. Along the way, they defied doctors, logic, midges, horseflies, rain and heat. Landlines is an inspirational story of love and endurance; of trails offering links to ancient times. But it's clear-eyed, too, on the future we're shaping’. - Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
'An extraordinary journey, in all its wonder: the exhilaration, the blisters, the aching limbs, the cry of oystercatchers' - Country Life
LANDLINES joins Raynor’s previous books as a Number One Sunday Times Bestseller.
Read the Deadline film announcement here.
Rights sold: German and Dutch