The short-list for the 2018 Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Bookshop Literary Award for nature writing was agreed on 13 January 2019 as:
· Kings of the Yukon: an Alaskan river journey by Adam Weymouth, (Particular Books)
· The Bumblebee Flies Anyway by Kate Bradbury (Bloomsbury Wildlife)
· Wilding by Isabella Tree (Picador)
· Our Place, by Mark Cocker (Jonathan Cape)
On 16 May 2019 the judges awarded the prize to Isabella Tree for Wilding: the Return of Nature to a British Farm. There is more information here.
"The
appeal of this book was summed up by one of the judges saying that it was a
publication that Richard Jefferies himself would have strongly supported."
Congratulations are extended to all the short-listed nominees who were all worthy candidates.
Isabella Tree will be giving a talk about her prize-winning book at St Mary's Church, Marlborough (east end of the High Street) on Thursday 25 July from 6.30-8.00pm before being presented with her award. Admission is by ticket (£5) obtained beforehand by contacting the White Horse Bookshop: http://www.whitehorsebooks.co.uk/event/author-talk-and-prize-giving-isabella-tree-wilding.html
Isabella Tree will be giving a talk about her prize-winning book at St Mary's Church, Marlborough (east end of the High Street) on Thursday 25 July from 6.30-8.00pm before being presented with her award. Admission is by ticket (£5) obtained beforehand by contacting the White Horse Bookshop: http://www.whitehorsebooks.co.uk/event/author-talk-and-prize-giving-isabella-tree-wilding.html
