2020 Winner Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
Shortlist 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
Longlist 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
Shortlist 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
Longlist 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
Shortlist 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
Longlist 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
Shortlist 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
Longlist 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
Shortlist 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
Longlist 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
Shortlist 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
Shortlist 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
Longlist 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