1 Attracted by its unusual colour and shape the beachcomber picked it up.

2 BEACH-COMBER Enliven an autumn palette with shades of citrus and spice, then indulge yourself in cashmere.

3 Jason Purvis, the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame.

4 As well as keeping their eyes peeled for surface coins and jewellery, beachcombers also look for non-metal items on their foreshore hunting grounds.

5 Further along the shore a few beachcombers were bunkered down, husking washed-up coconuts for copra; others collected shellfish.

6 Let me finish by reminding you that, like successful detectorists, beachcombers work with nature.

7 He would be in no hurry, but one night Strickland would get a knife-thrust in his back, and in a day or two the corpse of a nameless beach-comber would be fished out of the dirty water of the harbour.