Words Matter
It was the second big prize for ‘H is for Hawk’ by Helen MacDonald as she walked off with the Costa book award. It feels like we’re in the midst of a really purple patch for the genre of nature writing.
Yes our need for words to capture our special relationship with the natural world has been around for a while since the days of Gilbert White and his seminal natural history of Selborne Common. And yes there are countless classics from the last 200 years but it definitely feels like nature writing is rocking with the number of staggeringly good books lining the nation’s bookshops.
Go into any bookshop and the shelves are full of wonderful books about the natural world that look to capture the spirit of place and the pure joy of wildlife.
The explosion in top draw nature writing seems to have co-incided with the…
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