In this award-winning memoir, Amy Liptrot rediscovers the Orkney Islands

Introduction to manuscript revision

High adventure, understated prose

How books are made

A beautifully-written memoir of a biologist, a wild fox, and a magpie.

Settling into an Andalucian farm

Contemplations on reading and writing

Home truths and tactics on the writing life

Blurring the line between fact and fiction

Extraordinary account of a junior pilot in World War II

Tedium, fatigue, and hunger on the margins of war.

Nature-writing, memoir, and physical endurance

A beginner’s guide to the sights and sounds of common birds

Building a traditional elm barn the old way - by hand

The origins of the British lady private detective

A children’s guide to bugs, mollusks, and winged insects.

An account of the poisonous fogbank of depression

Lockdown relief in an English countryside journal

Travel essays: 1902-1940