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LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2025 AND A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
'A dazzlingly inventive work of literature' Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways
Rob Cowen is an award-winning writer and author, hailed as one of the UK's most original voices on nature, place and people. His first book, Skimming Stones, won the Roger Deakin Award from the Society of Authors. His second book, Common Ground was shortlisted for the Portico, Richard Jefferies Society and Wainwright Prizes and voted one of the nation's favourite nature books of all time in a BBC poll.
His follow-up, The Heeding, was the best-selling debut book of poetry in 2021. Rob has contributed to the New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent and written radio programmes for the BBC.
He joins us for The North Road. Described by James Rebanks as "a wonderful, epic braiding of history, geography and personal memoir."
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