From the UK's bestselling natural history writer- 'A heartfelt and evocative diary of a year among the trees.' Guardian
John Lewis-Stempel is a farmer and 'Britain's finest living nature writer' (The Times). His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers Woodston, The Running Hare and The Wood. He is the only person to have won the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing twice, with Meadowland and Where Poppies Blow. In 2016 he was named Magazine Columnist of the Year for his column in Country Life. He farms cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. Traditionally.
It is a pleasure to be in the company of a man who is so attuned to
his woody world ... He is good at sketching nature, fixing a vivid
image in the mind's eye of a reader ... Lewis-Stempel has rightly
won himself the reputation as being among our best nature writers
... The Wood is an entertaining, illuminating, well-turned read
*The Times*
John Lewis-Stempel is the hottest nature writer around.
*Spectator*
A heartfelt and evocative diary of a year among the trees…it’s his
observation of the natural world – the sight, the sound, the smell
of it – that is so memorable. He has a distinctively brisk,
muscular style of writing that has a poetic intensity and
concision.
*Guardian*
Lyrical diary documenting a year in nature ... he’s brilliant on
birds and their habits.
*Daily Mail*
Another triumph. Natural, translucent, full of half-glimpsed
depths....just like a wood itself.
*Philip Marsden*
This is countryside writing crackling with vitality. I savoured
every month spent in this exquisite sylvan zoo. And - the hallmark
of a great read - I learned a lot.
*Nicholas Crane*
It sounds magical and you just know it will be gloriously
written.
*Bookseller*
Words burn on the page, as ash logs flame in an open fire while you
journey with (Lewis-Stempel) through the four seasons ... his
intimate knowledge sets him way ahead of his contemporaries .. A
book not only for those who love the countryside but for those who
enjoy the written word as set down by a master of the language.
*Western Morning News*
Energetic narrative, tumbling with facts, judgements and
observations, as well as bursts of humour.
*Times Literary Supplement*
This is a memoir of 12 months in the life of a wood, stuffed with
tales of dive-bombing owls, doomed voles and ancient trees.
Beautiful writing and plenty of literary asides.
*The Times*
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