Bloomsbury Wildlife

I’m supposed to do a carefully curated publication day social media post featuring a picture of the book in a clever and beautiful outdoor setting. However, I’m not your average ‘nature writer’ and this book isn’t about me, so have a summer meadow instead. I hope you enjoy #neurodivergentbynature

Happy publication day to this brilliant book by @joeharkness.bsky.social 🥳🎉

Make sure grab your copy now it’s out in the wild (pun absolutely intended)!

‘Intrinsically connected’: how human neurodiversity could help save nature Biodiversity is linked to people’s diversity, and nature lends itself to people who are different, says author Joe Harkness

The first big bit of coverage for #neurodivergentbynature drops tomorrow in the Guardian newspaper, thanks to the brilliant @patrickbarkham.bsky.social It’s available online now: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

hardback book Neurodivergent By Nature: why biodiversity needs neurodiversity by Joe Harkness, a cream background with a black and pale green oak tree and green oak leaves and acorns around the top, upright on a dry stone wall with sunlit green fells and trees and field behind it

Perfectly harmonising with all the greens of Grasmere, @joeharkness.bsky.social's brilliant and essential new book #NeurodivergentByNature is in full leaf - and the shop - a little earlier than expected. Officially out July 31st @chiffchat.bsky.social. #NatureWriting #Neurodiversity #Booksky

With thanks to Lia Kajiki for both noticing and photographing, my @chiffchat.bsky.social book #MuchAdoAboutMothing has been praised by the wonderful @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk. I am touched indeed. So if you don't already have a copy, please buy from them! tinyurl.com/LRB-MAAM #TeamMoth

As if our cup isn't already running over, we have one more Wainwright longlisting to shout about - congratulations to Carry Akroyd and John McEwen, whose beautiful book Swoop Sing Perch Paddle has been longlisted for the prize for Illustrative Books🎉#wainwrightprize

We're also delighted to see @katebradbury.bsky.social on the longlist for Conservation Writing for One Garden Against the World!! Congratulations Kate🎉 #wainwrightprize #storiesthatconnect

Congratulations Sophie!! We're thrilled to see To Have or To Hold on the longlist for Conservation Writing 🎉

Cuckmere Wildlife Festival starts today! 🎉

There's an absolutely amazing line-up of speakers - including @tonyjuniper.bsky.social and @sophiepavs.bsky.social this afternoon - and you can still get tickets at the link below to join us 👇

www.cuckmerewildlifefestival.com/buy-tickets

Cuckmere Wildlife Festival

It's not too late to get your tickets for the Cuckmere Wildlife festival!

The incredible line up of speakers includes Tony Juniper, Sophie Pavelle, Hugh Warwick, Isabella Tree, Michael Warren, Kate Bradbury and more!

See the full line up and get your tickets here 👇 www.cuckmerewildlifefestival.com

I’m supposed to be writing but I’m distracted by welcome deliveries from @chiffchat.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social.

The Cuckoo’s Lea, by my good friend @drmjwarren.bsky.social is a thing of wonder.

As for @rlewington2.bsky.social et al’s Grasshoppers, I can’t wait to read the proofs.

The Cuckoo’s Lea by Michael Warren review – a magical ornithological history of Britain From buzzards in Oxfordshire to cranes in Kent – how once common birds left their mark in British place names

The Cuckoo's Lea - reviewed today in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

This Thursday at 19:30 (UK time) I’m with the History Association for a FREE evening online about #thecuckooslea, getting full on medieval! If birds, landscape, local history or Old English are your bag, this is the evening for you! Log on here: www.history.org.uk/events/calen... #naturewriting

Mesozoic Art II Following on from the hugely popular Mesozoic Art, this magnificent new volume showcases 25 amazing artists whose work represents the very best of palaeoart.Our…

Pre-order your copy now... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-...

Cover. Big, rectangular, with dinosaurs.

Title page, spinosaurid art by Anthony Hutchings.

Contents page, showing list of artists included.

Open pages, art by Bill Unzen.

What I am humbly regarding as the most significant, impactful and beautiful of #books devoted to #palaeoart / #paleoart - MESOZOIC ART II, edited by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and myself, published by @chiffchat.bsky.social - has arrived here at Tet Zoo Towers. It's on general sale in September!

EVENT | Don’t miss Sophie Pavelle talking all things To Have or To Hold this Friday!

📆13th June
🕖7pm
📍The Bookery, Crediton

Get your tickets now! thebookery.org.uk/event/sophie...

Great stuff Paul. Hope you enjoy. Jim

Cuckmere Wildlife Festival An amazing book festival featuring experts speaking about wildlife, conservation and the environment, and the creation of Cuckmere.

On Saturday we're joined by these speakers, high above the famous white cliffs: @katebradbury.bsky.social, @davegoulson.bsky.social, @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social, @drmjwarren.bsky.social and Isabella Tree, author of Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social. WHAT a line-up.

We have a genuinely stellar line-up for your enjoyment. On Friday 27 June, confirmed speakers at @wildlifefestival.bsky.social are @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @marklynas.bsky.social, @charliebingham.bsky.social, @sophiepavs.bsky.social and @tonyjuniper.bsky.social.

Cuckmere Wildlife Festival An amazing book festival featuring experts speaking about wildlife, conservation and the environment, and the creation of Cuckmere.

A couple of weeks until @wildlifefestival.bsky.social in Cuckmere Haven - a stunning venue for what we hope will become an important (and recurring!) feature in the wildlife/literature landscape. More details here:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cuckmere-w...

A truly smashing launch for @drmjwarren.bsky.social and The Cuckoo's Lea tonight. Photo of happy author appended 😃

Spotted in @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk. #thecuckooslea @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @chiffchat.bsky.social #naturewriting

On our way to London for the Urban Plants book launch. I have to say a few words. Maybe start reading at page 1 and see how it goes? @chiffchat.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Happy publication day to this beautiful book 🥳 🎉 Make sure you grab your copy!!

Joining us will be Michael J Warren (@drmjwarren.bsky.social). Author of 'The Cuckoo's Lea', he argues for a sense of place rooted in a close connection with nature, in particular birds.

Well here's a thing of beauty. Available ONLY in independent bookstores, from 3 June. #CuckoosLea

Oh my word! Botanist about to explode! Just unboxed my presentation copies of Urban Plants & I’m as giddy as a bee in a bellflower. It’s a beautiful thing, from the gorgeous Carry Akroyd cover to the photos kindly provided by many lovely people. Hope you enjoy it www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla...

Within May’s newsletter you’ll find Josh Pickett's review of a Field Guide to British Fish by @fishtwitcher.bsky.social now available in paperback from @chiffchat.bsky.social