Category: My books

Happy 300th birthday, Gilbert!

Join me this Saturday to celebrate the 300th birthday of the first modern nature writer - Gilbert White

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Framing Nature: otter

The otter is a symbol of hope for conservationists. Once lost from much of Britain, it has bounced back.

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Framing Nature: fox

My forthcoming new book will include portrait essays of nine species. Together they tell the story of our relationship with the rest of nature.

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My next book

I am pleased to confirm details of my forthcoming book, to be launched in the autumn

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Letters from Gilbert: 3

On this day in 1771 Gilbert White, whose 300th anniversary we celebrate this year, was thinking about migration. Exactly 245 years later I visited his home on my own spring journey.

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Letters from Gilbert: 2

Gilbert White was the first modern nature writer, and his studies of less well-known species like the field cricket leave a lasting legacy.

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Oktoberfeste

I'm looking forward to speaking at three very different festivals coming up in October.

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North Cornwall Book Festival talk podcast

Last month’s North Cornwall Book Festival was memorable, and the talks are available as podcasts for those who missed it. ...

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North Cornwall Book Festival

A year ago, I was at the North Cornwall Book Festival from where a BBC Countryfile programme was being filmed. ...

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The Grey Mountains where eagles meet their doom

Another outrage in the Monadhliaths ​“They are ice-white in the morning sun; under the snow, even now, the budding heather...

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