Jon Woolcott

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Author Real Dorset (Seren), The Tattooed Hills (Aurum, April 2026), editor Going to Ground, works Little Toller, editor The Clearing. Events/writing/buy: linktr.ee/jonwoolcott

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A photograph of Kenneth Williams as Caesar in Carry on Cleo.
A photo of a root labelled root.
A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
A photograph of Maggi Hambling's scallop on Aldeburgh beach.
A framed print of the artwork for The Tattooed Hills.
The Cerne Abbas Giant rechalked.
A photograph of Sonny Rollins.
Polperro with my mum and dad, 1957.
A boat named Unsinkable 2.
A view of Fowey harbour photographed through a hole in a wall.
Westbury White Horse snapped from my train.
A poster with details of my talk in Waterstones Salisbury on 30 April.
A stack of The Tattooed Hills on a table
A painting of some pigs, by someone who had definitely had pigs described to them at some point, but may not have met any pigs.
Here's Johnny from The Shining.
The cover of Mad Shepherds by L P Jacks.
A photograph of Nina Simone and James Baldwin.
A list of events for The Tattooed Hills book tour. Best clicked from my bio, includes Marlborough, Bath, Salisbury, Fowey, Crediton, Abingdon, Shaftesbury, Romsey, Sherborne.
A quote from Fiona Robertson which reads 'a fascinating story told with humour and joy that reveals the strange stories of Britain's hill figures 'g
A portrait of a rather severe looking woman in Seville.
A painting in the Alcazar, Seville showing a man with extremely tight britches.
The cover of The Tattooed Hills.
A gif of Dougal from the Magic Roundabout.
Picture shows detail of the cover of The Tattooed Hills and this quote by John Grindrod: As warm as Detectorists and as poetic as an English folk ballad.
My laptop screen showing the progress of my latest book.
Sir John Soane's tomb in St Pancras churchyard.
The gravestones stacked in a circle in St Pancras churchyard
A bottle of expensive pudding wine erroneously situated in a north London recoding studio.
Two greetings cards, identical except for their colour, on a windowsill.
A photograph of the artist Kurt Schwitters and friends, in the Lake District.
A photograph of the small Cross and Hand stone in Dorset, surrounded by snowdrops.
A screenshot of a page from The Bookseller Magazine describing The Tattooed Hills as 'Alluring.'
The scene from Withnail and I in which The two protagonists beg a farmer for help in the pouring rain.
A small stack of books spine on, with a sticker over the last letter in 'Gabriel's Moon.'
A photograph of raindrops on a window pane, not the movie poster, regrettably.
A photograph of the painting The Bridge by Philip Wilson Steer, in which a man is leaning on a rail of a bridge, speaking to a woman who is looking at some boats.
A photograph of a laptop screen with the title The Tattooed Hills, Journeys to Chalk Figures and the name Jon Woolcott beneath.
A photograph of Tom Stoppard.
The chalk lion at Whipsnade zoo, recently restored.
A poster promoting The Tattooed Hills, 25% off the RRP at Waterstones.com until 17 October only.
A photograph of Diane Keaton as Annie Hall.
The cover of The Tattooed Hills, a white horse on a chalkand landscape.
A photograph of Jane Goodall with a chimpanzee.
Copies of Storm Damage and Love Poems by Brian Patten