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‘For several minutes I stood and stared as they looped, settled, flew again, feeling like I was in a dream.’

An unexpected encounter: As Jill Hopper walks by the River Wandle, electric blue shoots across the water www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/jill...

This year's Rick Allen Memorial Talk is being given by AC member @annamfleming.bsky.social.

Anna will be discussing her book Time on Rock and her experience of mountaineering with Bolivia's Cholita climbers.

Held on 21 October at Birmingham University, the talk is free to attend & open to all.

Very excited to share that I'm writing a new book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY - about the loss of England's chalk downland: a tale of flowers, fascism & freedom.

To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027:
www.thebookseller.com/rights/willi...

Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org

William Collins lands Guy Shrubsole's new book The Ghosts of Chalk Country

@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social has acquired The Ghosts of Chalk Country, a 'journey into the chalk downs' by Sunday Times-bestselling author Guy Shrubsole. Publication is scheduled for April 2027 👇 #BookSky

A promotional image for the Kendal Mountain Festival and an event with author Julian Hoffman.

So excited to be returning to the fabulous @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social to join a wonderful line-up of writers. I'll be in conversation about my new book, LIFELINES, with the brilliant author and biodiversity campaigner Kate Rawles on Nov 22nd.
tickets.kendalmountainfestival.com/schedule/689...

We're delighted to announce that we'll be publishing 'predominant nature writer' Jim Crumley's latest book, Symphonic: Harmony in Nature and Why It Matters ✨

Read more here:

saraband.net/2025/09/17/s...

#Booksky
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Photo of Lee Durrell and Julian Hoffman taken against a marble wall.

An audience in chairs listening to Lee Durrell at the Corfu Literary Festival.

Lee Durrell reading from the book Myself and Other Animals.

Such a joy and honour to interview the brilliant Dr Lee Durrell for the Corfu Literary Festival. Celebrating the centenary of Gerald Durrell's birth, she generously shared stories of their remarkable life together and her ongoing efforts to protect endangered species throughout the world.

Good to speak at today’s @wildsummituk.bsky.social on why this government needs a vision for the countryside that isn’t about soulless attacks on newts. We need a new Nature Bill that takes inspiration from Attlee’s postwar govt: making national parks wilder & creating a right of responsible access

Many congratulations to @guyshrubsole.bsky.social on winning the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing @wainwrightprize.bsky.social last night for his brilliant & important book The Lie of the Land, published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social

Absolutely delighted that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has won the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing!

This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England…

bsky.app/profile/wain...

'Remarkable' Adam Phillips 'Dangerous' M. Wynn Thomas 'Moving' Rowan Williams 'Astonishing' Pascale Petit 'Extraordinary' Tom Bullough 'Compelling, radical and moving' alice hiller

🎇📚 SHORTLISTED! 📚🎇

We are absolutely delighted that Gwyneth Lewis's bold and honest memoir 'Nightshade Mother' has been shortlisted for the Sky Arts Literature award!

Make sure to tune in to the ceremony on 16 September!

www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/articl...

Nominees announced for 2025 Sky Arts Awards Nominees are announced today for this year’s Sky Arts Awards, returning to London’s Roundhouse on 16 September.Launched last year as an evolution of the South Bank Sky Arts Awards, The Sky Arts Awards...

Many congratulations to Gwyneth Lewis whose memoir, Nightshade Mother has been nominated for the 2025 Sky Arts Literature Award:
www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/articl...

A map of the Prespa lakes region shared by Greece, Albania and North Macedonia that appear on the endpapers of my book Lifelines.

Such a pleasure recording this podcast for Sense of Place about Lifelines, home and the more-than-human world!
www.senseofplacepod.com/podcast/epis...

Words to Light the Dark: Writing the worlds of other animals How do we bridge the experiential gap between that of humans and other animals with writing that feels intelligible to us, while reaching for the differences in how other animals sense, think, and act...

Online this Tuesday evening. Delving into the exciting & urgent question of how we can include the lives & experiences of nonhumans in writing w/ fellow author Emma Geen, hosted by @walklistencreate.org! Tickets here:
walklistencreate.org/walkingevent...

Books that intelligently poke at our complex relationship with wild nature, should be compulsory reading - this is one of them.
@chantallyons.bsky.social immerses herself in the world of wild boar and those people with an opinion on their growing presence.

www.waterstones.com/book/groundb...

Os invitamos a la presentación en Barcelona de "La melodía del mundo" de @casparhenderson.bsky.social, en conversación con Claudia Casanova @lallum35.bsky.social, directora editorial de Ático de los Libros, en @documentabcn.bsky.social ✨

⏲️ Miércoles 10 de septiembre - 19:00h

📌 Librería Documenta

Page from The Cuckoo’s Lea.

A white-tailed eagle about to make a kill.

OS map show Hampshire place-names relating to old and now lost Arnewood.

Bird place-name of the day 81: ARNEWOOD (Hants). OE earn + wudu. ‘Eagle wood’. A lost place. FINALLY, I saw WTEs in Sussex yesterday at Amberley Brooks, my childhood haunts. I write about this hoped-for moment in #thecuckooslea, so delighted I’ve now seen these birds. #birdsandplace #naturewriting

Two brilliant new reads on coexistence with creatures great & small - @adamweymouth.bsky.social on wolves, & @julianhoffman.bsky.social on fellow humans, bears, wrens, swallows & beyond in Greece ❤️

'This book could be chosen as an alternative introduction to Orkney history.'

As John Murray Press launch their John Murray Classics imprint, read Amy Liptrot’s brand new foreword to George Mackay Brown’s ‘Beside the Ocean of Time’: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/besi...

Balkan bounty: the little-known corner of Greece now ripe for walkers and nature tourism Mountains, butterflies, bears and pelicans are among the natural wonders in the stunning Prespa lakes region, which straddles three countries

"I’m on a steadily rising road in northern Greece as swallows sweep over the burnished grasses to either side of me & pelicans spiral through the summer sky"

@julianhoffman.bsky.social writes @theguardian.com about the stunning #Prespa lakes, the setting of his new memoir #Lifelines:
bit.ly/3UiL69L

Absolutely thrilled that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has been shortlisted for the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social for conservation writing!

Honoured to join an incredible shortlist of authors including @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social

More here:
wainwrightprize.com/shortlist-20...

We’re thrilled to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize shortlists!

From climate and conservation to poetry, place and powerful storytelling for young readers, this year’s books celebrate our connection to the natural world.

Explore them all: wainwrightprize.com

#StoriesThatConnect

Lovely empty windows: @lauraparker.bsky.social tells the story of a 1928 lifeboat tragedy, as memorialised in the windows of an East Sussex church www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/07/love...

Residential Writing Course: Non-Fiction Writing the natural world with Jay Griffiths, @wylmenmuir.bsky.social and Michael Malay.

Learn how to transmute the world around you into vivid and unforgettable work on the page : arvon.org/writing-cour...

25-30 August 2025 | The Hurst, Shropshire.

Time to re-reintroduce myself.

My name is Chris Fitch, I'm a writer and author whose latest book is Wild Cities, a scientific travelogue exploring the benefits and challenges of nature and wildlife in urban spaces

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Six days until my book on the ecology of the Merlin is published by Pelagic. If you think you know all about the Merlin, think again 🤔

An image of Guy Shrubsole stood in a woodland on a sunny day, looking past the camera. A graphic silhouette of an owl is overlaid

We can’t wait for @guyshrubsole.bsky.social to join us #WildSummitUK 🍿

Guy will be discussing the importance of nature-friendly planning alongside Community Planning Alliance & @nationaltrust.org.uk 🌳

Tickets available now👇
wildsummituk.eventbrite.co.uk

Lifelines, by Julian Hoffman 'Part autobiography, part ethnography, part poetic narrative is both a lament and a celebration of the natural world written in attentive, awakened language'

Thrilled to see this wonderfully thoughtful review of LIFELINES in the Baptist Times this weekend.
www.baptist.org.uk/Articles/717...

AI hype, crackling northern lights and more: take it all in with these holiday reads Ten of Nature’s recent contributors share their current book obsessions.

“In its scope and passion, this book appeals to readers’ most romantic instincts — reminding us of our entanglement with the cosmos and the organisms that live in it.” @leorzmigrod.bsky.social picks A Book of Noises as a summer read @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cover of Nightshade Mother which displays a nightshade plant on a purple background, climbing around the title and also the sticker Enillydd Categori Category Winner 2025 with the logo of Hadio, the sponsor

🎇📚 Enillydd! Winner! 📚🎇

Llongyfarchiadau mawr to Calon author Gwyneth Lewis whose powerful memoir 'Nightshade Mother' has won the #Wales #Book of the Year Creative Non-Fiction Award!