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2023

Winner
Late Light: The Secret Wonders of a Disappearing World by Michael Malay
 
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One Midsummer’s Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth by Mark Cocker
The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain’s Rarest Flowers by Ben Jacob
Footprints in the Woods: The Secret Life of Forest and Riverbank by John Lister-Kaye
Across a Waking Land: A 1000-mile Walk through a British Spring by Roger Morgan-Grenville
Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands by Annie Worsley
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2022

Winner
Wild Fell: Fighting for nature on a Lake District hill farm by Lee Schofield
 
Shortlist
Where the Wildflowers Grow by Leif Bersweden
Fen, Bog, & Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by E Annie Proulx
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence
The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole
Illuminated by Water by Malachy Tallack
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2021

Winner
On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging by Nicola Chester
 
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Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other by James Aldred
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
Birdsong in a Time of Silence by Steven Lovatt
Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore (The Sea Is Not Made of Water) by Adam Nicolson
Ice Rivers by Jemma Wadham
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2020

Winner
Orchard. A Year in England's Eden by Benedict Macdonald & Nicholas Gates
 
Shortlist
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
The Consolation of Nature: Spring in the Time of Coronavirus by Michael McCarthy , Jeremy Mynott & Peter Marren
The Swallow: A Biography by Stephen Moss
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World's Most Enigmatic Fish (The Book of Eels) by Patrik Svensson
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2019

Winner
Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and Its Birds by Benedict Macdonald
 
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On the Marsh by Simon Barnes
Incredible Journeys by David Barrie
The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand
The Nature of Spring by Jim Crumley
Working With Nature by Jeremy Purseglove
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2018

Winner
Wilding: the Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree
 
Shortlist
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway by Kate Bradbury
Our Place by Mark Cocker
Kings of the Yukon: an Alaskan river journey by Adam Weymouth
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