Books for Nature Lovers - Wainwright Prize longlist

The Wainwright Prize aims to celebrate nature and our environment and inform readers of the threats the earth currently faces. The Longlist for this prize was announced earlier this month. With a new government now in office, The Wainwright Prize hopes to provide a platform to bring many of the issues covered in the longlist to the forefront of political discourse.

A total of 35 books have been longlisted across the Prize’s three categories –the Prize for Nature Writing, the Prize for Writing on Conservation, and the Prize for Children’s Writing on Nature and Conservation. Each longlist was selected from submissions that demonstrated the diversity and strength of nature writing, including authors such as Olivia Laing, Rebecca Smith, Hamza Yassin, Caroline Lucas, Marchelle Farrell, Katherine Rundell and Eoin Colfer. and there are some great reads for both adults and children.

Look out for the shortlist on 15th August. We will have copies of all shortlisted titles in the shop.