"Polymathic in the best sense.” Almost tripped over my cor-blimey trousers when I learned this morning from this very kind article by John Mitchenson that I am a Zeitgeister. The editor spells my name wrong two out of three times in the first paragraph subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/81/z...

Pleased to share that I've written a chapter for FUTURE RURAL, a new book out in April 2026 to mark @cprecountryside.bsky.social's centenary Other authors include @amyjanebeer.bsky.social @nicolawriting.bsky.social @maryannochota.bsky.social Pre-order here: www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

Looking forward to speaking with the wonderful Lucy Durneen about LIFELINES for Cambridge University on Tues Dec 16th, 7pm UK. It's online, free & open to all. And I've been asked to talk about bears in case anyone needs a pre-Christmas ursine fix! Registration ⬇️ www.pace.cam.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Wonderful to hear Gwyneth Lewis on Radio 4' A Good Read! Follow the link below to discover the author of 'Nightshade Mother's favourite books 📚

Wonderful to finally meet up with Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social at the Kendal Mountain Festival yesterday where he was interviewed by local author Kate Rawles, and gave an inspiring talk about his latest book ‘Lifelines’. Thanks Julian.

Introducing... #TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social, a captivating retelling of the water cycle. Follow a raindrop as it flows through diverse waterscapes: river sources in the upland moors; saltmarsh-flanked firths and estuaries; spectacular lochs and crystal-clear chalk streams. Out 26 March

Why write? Join me on 27 November for what may be a deep dive, and should at least be fun www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/events/creat...

An evening of wonder chatting with @drmjwarren.bsky.social last night about his beautifully-written book THE CUCKOO'S LEA, at The Bookery in Crediton - discussing crows & owls, placenames & Anglo-Saxon Charters! Buy Michael's book here or from your local indy - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cuckoos-l...

Prickles, thorns and spines - what's the difference? I tirelessly investigate for this week's Country Life. 📷 Alamy, Bridgewater images

Delighted to be speaking about LIFELINES at the University of Glasgow on Nov 25th at 4pm for the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. The event at the university's bookshop is free to attend and open to the public but registration is required via the link. events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

My book THE LOST RAINFORESTS OF BRITAIN was published 3 years ago. Since then, it's sold nearly 100,000 copies. More importantly, it's been so wonderful to see the momentum behind the movement to restore Britain's temperate rainforests gather pace - with many more victories yet to come, I hope.

Deeply grateful to @orionmagazine.bsky.social for giving @alexismarieadams.bsky.social and myself the opportunity to have a conversation about borders, belonging, writing, rivers, grief and resistance, as well as our shared love for the more-than-human world. orionmagazine.org/article/hear...

So, the book has a cover, thanks to the kindness of Colin Davidson. Out in January 26 with some events in Ireland the end of February, start of March. Will be available in the US slightly later. Thanks to you all for encouragement along the way. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

People of Devon, @guyshrubsole.bsky.social and I are in conversation about birds, landscape and belonging @thebookery.bsky.social, 13th November. Lots of Devon places are in the book, and crows, lots of crows! Join us! Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cre... #authorevent #naturewriting

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! bookshop.org/p/books/life...

We are so excited to be publishing @steverutt.bsky.social's new book #TheWaterlands, an evocative journey through British waterscapes revealing everything a single raindrop can show us on its journey from source to sea. 💧 Read more @bookbrunch.bsky.social: www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

‘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

@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

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 📚💙

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...

🎇📚 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...

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...

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

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

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...

"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 🌴🐝🏡🦜🦁🏢🦭

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 🤔

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

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

“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...

🎇📚 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!

Just received proofs for THE BOOK OF BOGS - out in September from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social, with contributions from @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social, Amy Liptrot, @nicolawriting.bsky.social @horatioclare.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social, me, and many others.

I'm offering mentoring sessions now for writers of non-fiction. One-to-one video call, 2000 words of your writing reviewed with honest feedback and pointers for development. More information here: stephenrutt.com/mentoring/

Dip your head beneath the waves – THE TANGLES, from Amy Liptrot (bestselling author of The Outrun) is coming. An illuminating exploration into miraculous seaweeds, blending ecology, history and memoir, it gives us new eyes to look at this fascinating organism www.thebookseller.com/rights/canon...

Canongate makes a dive for Amy Liptrot's The Tangles, a new book about seaweed. It will be published in May 2026 👇 #BookSky