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2021
Winner
English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks

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The Screaming Sky by Charles Foster
Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
Seed to Dust by Marc Hamer
Thin Places by Kerri ni Dochartaigh
I Belong Here by Anita Sethi
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn

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The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell
The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary by Melissa Harrison
Birdsong in a Time of Silence by Steven Lovatt
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
Skylarks with Rosie by Stephen Moss
Into The Tangled Bank by Lev Parikian
2020
Winner
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

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​Dark, Salt, Clear by Lamorna Ash
The Frayed Atlantic Edge by David Gange
Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape by Patrick Laurie
On the Red Hill by Mike Parker
Wanderland by Jini Reddy
Dancing with Bees by Brigit Strawbridge Howard illustrated by John Walters

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Wild Child by Patrick Barkham by Patrick Barkham
Bird Therapy by Joe Harkness
Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie
Wintering by Katherine May
The Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith
Rootbound by Alice Vincent
2019
Winner
Underland by Robert Macfarlane

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Time Song by Julia Blackburn
The Easternmost House by Juliet Blaxland
Our Place by Mark Cocker
Thinking on My Feet by Kate Humble
Wilding by Isabella Tree
Out of the Woods by Luke Turner

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Landfill by Tim Dee
Ghost Trees by Bob Gilbert
How to Catch a Mole by Marc Hamer
Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas
Lanny by Max Porter
Wild Woman Swimming by Lynne Roper
2018
Winner
The Seabird’s Cry by Adam Nicolson

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The Last Wilderness by Neil Ansell
Hidden Nature by Alys Fowler
Outskirts by John Grindrod
The Dun Cow Rib by John Lister-Kaye
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane Illustrated by Jackie Morris
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

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Islander by Patrick Barkham
21st Century Yokel by Tom Cox
Owl Sense by Miriam Darlington
The Wood by John Lewis-Stempel
A Wood of One’s Own by Ruth Pavey
The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young
2017
Winner
Where Poppies Blow by John Lewis-Stempel

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Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey by Madeleine Bunting
The Otters’ Tale by Simon Cooper
The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel
Wild Kingdom by Stephen Moss
The January Man by Christopher Somerville
The Wild Other by Clover Stroud

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The Nature of Autumn by Jim Crumley
Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain by Lucy Jones
A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
Love, Madness, Fishing by Dexter Petley
2016
Winner
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot

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Common Ground by Rob Cowen
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy
The Fish Ladder by Katharine Norbury
The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks

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Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore by Patrick Barkham
Being A Beast by Charles Foster
Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies by Alexandra Harris
Rain by Melissa Harrison
Raptor: A Journey Through Birds by James Macdonald Lockhart
Landskipping by Anna Pavord
2015
Winner
Meadowland by John Lewis-Stempel

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Running Free: A Runner’s Journey Back to Nature by Richard Askwith
The Moor by William Atkins
Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet by Mark Cocker
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place by Philip Marsden

Longlist
Walking Home by Clare Balding
The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs by Tristan Gooley
Britannia Obscura: Mapping Hidden Britain by Joanne Parker
The Ash Tree by Oliver Rackham
On Silbury Hill by Adam Thorpe
Counting Sheep by Philip Walling
2014
Winner
The Green Road Into The Trees by Hugh Thomson

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Walking Home by Simon Armitage
Badgerlands by Patrick Barkham
Under Another Sky by Charlotte Higgins
The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane
Field Notes from a Hidden City by Esther Woolfson

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Pondlife by Al Alvarez
Deer Island by Neil Ansell
The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare
Holloway by Robert Macfarlane & Dan Richards Illustrated by Stanley Donwood
Ramble On by Sinclair McKay
Silt Road by Charles Rangeley-Wilson