Published by Fairlight Books on July 1, 2021, and available to pre-order now.
New book: ‘An Indifference Of Birds’
The story of human history
—from a bird’s eye view.
Short story: Hannah Rensenbrink’s Postcards From Qasigiannguit
A story first published in The Lonely Crowd.
Essay from ‘Songs Of Place And Time’: A Peregrine’s Eye
We have a peregrine now. It makes me think again about place and scale.
Short story: Everywhere’s The Middle Of Everywhere
This story was written while I was the Northern Short Story Festival’s Writer in Residence at Middleton Park in Leeds.
The Fence essay: State Of Nature
Something is wrong in the Robert Macfarlane Extended Universe.
Object permanence
It was about quarter to seven on the morning of November 9, 2016. We were crawling through an inch of…
Review 31 essay: What Are Book Prizes For?
When the most prestigious prize in nature writing appears unable or unwilling to recognise and reward good writing for its own sake, the perception of nature writing as literature is diminished.
New Statesman review: ‘Greenery – Journeys In Springtime’, Tim Dee (Jonathan Cape, 2020)
Even before this spring is done with we can say that the genre is unlikely to furnish a richer reading experience than Greenery this year.
Literary Review review: ‘The All True Adventures (and Rare Education) of the Daredevil Daniel Bones’, Owen Booth (4th Estate, 2020)
This is a novel that surprised me first by existing and then by being not only funny – and it is very funny – but also strangely, desperately moving.