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James Macdonald Lockhart
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Author of Wild Air & Raptor. Literary Agent: James Lockhart Agency: jameslockhartagency.com
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Delighted to share the North American cover for LIFELINES. With huge thanks to Nicole Caputo for the beautiful design and for placing Edward Lear's 1837 lithograph of a Dalmatian pelican at its heart. Published by Godine on April 14th, it's available to pre-order now!
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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...
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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.
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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
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@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
William Collins lands Guy Shrubsole's new book The Ghosts of Chalk Country
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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...
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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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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.
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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
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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…

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The WINNER of the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing...

The Lie of the Land, @guyshrubsole.bsky.social (@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social)

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