#thecuckooslea #naturewriting #WainwrightPrize

Thrilled to pieces to be shortlisted @wainwrightprize.bsky.social! My quirky fusion of a book & its delightful & opinionated ghosts (human, wild & otherwise) revisiting the points in recent wildlife & rural history where we could have taken different paths, why we didn’t, & what we do now!

If there’s one outcome I wanted for #TheCuckoosLea it’s that it will bring greater attention to the heritage of our ancient place-names which include a lot of nature! Making @wainwrightprize.bsky.social’s shortlist this year is validation of that aim. #naturewriting #PlaceNames #WainwrightPrize

Thrilled to have made @wainwrightprize.bsky.social’s 2026 SHORTLIST! Congrats to my fellow nature writing category nominees, incl. @lucylapwing.bsky.social @nicolawriting.bsky.social. #naturewriting #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect

Massive congratulations to @drmjwarren.bsky.social who has now been SHORTLISTED for the 2026 @wainwrightprize.bsky.social! 🎉🌱 Longlisted for the Nature Writing Prize, The Cuckoo’s Lea uncovers the history that lies forgotten in England's place names. #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect

This was a blast—J. A. Baker, peregrines and bird chat in the heat @globalbirdfair.bsky.social 2026 with @goldengrenadesco.bsky.social’s @yolobirder.bsky.social and @willrose.bsky.social #naturewriting #GlobalBirdFair

Golden Grenades Collective@goldengrenadesco.bsky.social · yesterday

Our JA Baker/Peregrine special podcast episode live at Birdfair with the brilliant @drmjwarren.bsky.social is out now! goldengrenades.com/podcast/epis...

Our JA Baker/Peregrine special podcast episode live at Birdfair with the brilliant @drmjwarren.bsky.social is out now! goldengrenades.com/podcast/epis...

Episode 43: JA Baker and ‘The Peregrine’ with Michael J Warren - Live from Global Birdfair

For this very special episode Kit and Will are joined by writer, naturalist and medievalist, Michael J Warren live from Global Birdfair to celebrate JA Baker and his seminal nature writing book…

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Very proud to be part of this. @wainwrightprize.bsky.social @chiffchat.bsky.social #naturewriting

The Wainwright Prizes@wainwrightprize.bsky.social · last wk.

2 stacks. 28 extraordinary books. 1 shared purpose: to help us better understand the world around us. From explorations of changing climate to stories of wildlife, landscapes & people, this year's #WainwrightPrize longlists celebrate the very best in environmental storytelling. wainwrightprize.com

With so many incredible authors celebrating nature, wildlife, and the stories that connect people and planet, this year's Wainwright Prize looks set to be a special one! 📚😍

The Wainwright Prizes@wainwrightprize.bsky.social · 3w ago

We're delighted to reveal the 2026 #WainwrightPrize longlists! 📚 From captivating nature writing & urgent conservation stories to children's books that spark curiosity, this year's lists celebrate the stories that connect people & planet. Discover more: wainwrightprize.com

I'm absolutely made up to hear that I'm on this year’s @wainwrightprize.bsky.social longlist for Wild Pavements. & many congrats to all the nominees, in particular @nicolawriting.bsky.social & @drmjwarren.bsky.social who have been wonderfully supportive.

Congratulations to Michael - The Cuckoo’s Lea is a wonderful book!

Michael J. Warren@drmjwarren.bsky.social · 3w ago

Delighted to be on this year’s @wainwrightprize.bsky.social longlist for #thecuckooslea: wainwrightprize.com/longlist-2026/ Congrats to all the nominees, incl. @nicolawriting.bsky.social @lucylapwing.bsky.social @joeharkness.bsky.social @amandatuke.bsky.social #naturewriting

Delighted to be on this year’s @wainwrightprize.bsky.social longlist for #thecuckooslea: wainwrightprize.com/longlist-2026/ Congrats to all the nominees, incl. @nicolawriting.bsky.social @lucylapwing.bsky.social @joeharkness.bsky.social @amandatuke.bsky.social #naturewriting

Longlist 2026 - Wainwright Prize

2026 Longlists This year, we’re celebrating 68 exceptional books across five categories, each one showcasing the power of stories to connect people and planet. From deeply personal journeys through wi...

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Bloomsbury Wildlife@chiffchat.bsky.social · 3w ago

Huge congratulations to @drmjwarren.bsky.social who has been longlisted for the 2026 @wainwrightprize.bsky.social! 🎉🌱 Longlisted for the Nature Writing Prize, The Cuckoo’s Lea uncovers the history that lies forgotten in England's place names. #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect

Huge congratulations to @drmjwarren.bsky.social who has been longlisted for the 2026 @wainwrightprize.bsky.social! 🎉🌱 Longlisted for the Nature Writing Prize, The Cuckoo’s Lea uncovers the history that lies forgotten in England's place names. #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect

A fantastic set of books on the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social longlist this year: including @nicolawriting.bsky.social's Ghosts of the Farm, @drmjwarren.bsky.social's The Cuckoo's Lea, @lucylapwing.bsky.social's Love Is A Toad, & Luke Barley's Ancient. Congrats! 💚 wainwrightprize.com/news/2026-lo...

2026 Longlist Announcement - Wainwright Prize

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To all @globalbirdfair.bsky.social see you there! Loving this animation from @willrose.bsky.social … can I get it on a t-shirt? #naturewriting

Golden Grenades Collective@goldengrenadesco.bsky.social · 4w ago

We are at Birdfair on Saturday doing a live podcast with our pal @drmjwarren.bsky.social talking all things Peregrine and JA Baker! Come and heckle!

MPs call on UK government to host televised emergency briefing on climate emergency

MPs call on UK government to host televised emergency briefing on climate emergency

As UK swelters in another heatwave, 50-minute Chris Packham film outlines threats to security, economy and health

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Yesterday, my brilliant friend @amyabdelnoor.bsky.social published her debut novel, Everland, about two girls, 33 years apart, dealing with the ongoing horror of the occupation in Palestine. Deep empathy with others through the power of fiction. Buy and read! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...

‘It makes your heart sing’: can a pioneering project show that rewilding really works?

‘It makes your heart sing’: can a pioneering project show that rewilding really works?

The long read: Intensive farming has all but destroyed England’s ancient woodlands and freshwater wetlands. On a farm in Lincolnshire a radical aristocrat hopes to show there’s money in protecting nature

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I’ve just finished this book. I didn’t want it to end, fascinating read.

Michael J. Warren@drmjwarren.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This morning’s visitor. Had them as flyovers before but not actually IN our garden! Was very interested in the upturned bucket, which it kept tapping. #greenwoodpecker #gardenbirds #naturewriting

This is clever. Very emotive way of showing our losses. And it’s pointed that such a brief chronology, just 50 years, is not a time frame in which most of us can distinguish the gradual losses, marked as they are. #naturewriting www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

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This makes me so sad, weighs in my heart and memory, but it is reversible if we act NOW as the rewilding if the Knepp Estate shows. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

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With Melissa Harrison last night @thebookery.bsky.social in Crediton, talking about her latest novel, The Given World. Do yourself a favour this summer: buy and read this book! It’s so tender and profound, with one of the most heartachingly beautiful endings of any book I know. #naturewriting

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Ooo, can't beat a flashy ruff, so join him in today's Essex @theguardian.com country diary by @drmjwarren.bsky.social. #naturewriting #countrydiary

Country diary: Watching the ruffs strut like ludicrous Walter Raleighs | Michael J Warren

Blackwater Estuary, Essex: Near a vast sweep of flats and creeks, one small pool has become a destination for both me and a parade of shore birds

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My latest @theguardian.com Country Diary, on the incredible display of waders that came to my Blackwater Estuary patch this May. They just kept coming! www.theguardian.com/environment/... #naturewriting

Country diary: Watching the ruffs strut like ludicrous Walter Raleighs | Michael J Warren

Blackwater Estuary, Essex: Near a vast sweep of flats and creeks, one small pool has become a destination for both me and a parade of shore birds

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Many congratulations to Mary Colwell, who is honored with an MBE for @curlewaction.bsky.social and all her work for nature. And just as the public consultation is published for the GCSE Natural History. Have your say: consult.education.gov.uk/gcse-and-a-l...

It's pinch-me-worthy to see Land Beneath the Waves on book tables and displays alongside authors that I admire so much, such as @drmjwarren.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social and @robcowen.bsky.social. 😍 #naturewriting #chronicillness @summersdalebooks.bsky.social

Nic Wilson@nicwilson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Next installment of the book signing/university tour is Bristol's wonderful @bookhaus.bsky.social in Wapping Wharf. And after last night's hobbity accommodation, I'm on the hunt for SECOND breakfast. I'm liking my first ever visit to the city. #naturewriting @summersdalebooks.bsky.social