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2024

Shortlist
Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Country Garden by Marchelle Farrell
Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill
Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness by Alastair Humphreys
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging by Jessica J Lee
Late Light: The Secret Wonders of a Disappearing World by Michael Malay
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside by Rebecca Smith

Longlist
Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better by Polly Atkin
The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk from Here to There by Jack Cornish
Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The Lost History of Wolves in Britain and the Myths and Stories that Surround Them by Derek Gow
Hedgelands: A Wild Wander Around Britain’s Greatest Habitat by Christopher Hart
Be a Birder: My Love of Birdwatching and How to Get Started by Hamza Yassin
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2023

Winner
The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness by Amy-Jane Beer

Shortlist
Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Ten Birds That Changed The World by Stephen Moss
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast by Dorthe Nors translated by Caroline Waight
The Golden Mole: And Other Living Treasure by Katherine Rundell illustrated by Talya Baldwin
Belonging by Amanda Thomson

​Longlist
The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin by Patrick Barkham
Where the Wildflowers Grow by Leif Bersweden
Sea Bean by Sally Huband
Cacophony of Bone by Kerri ni Dochartaigh
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival by Alice Vincent
Landlines by Raynor Winn
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2022

Winner
Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other by James Aldred

Shortlist
On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging by Nicola Chester
Time on Rock: A Climber’s Route into the Mountains by Anna Fleming
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain by Matthew Green
Otherlands: A World in the Making by Dr Thomas Halliday
The Instant by Amy Liptrot

Longlist
Wild Green Wonders: A Life in Nature by Patrick Barkham
12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature’s Lessons in Happiness by Charlie Corbett
The Heeding by Rob Cowen illustrated by Nick Hayes
The Trespasser’s Companion by Nick Hayes
Much Ado About Mothing: A Year Intoxicated by Britain’s Rare and Remarkable Moths by James Lowen
Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore (The Sea Is Not Made of Water) by Adam Nicolson
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2021

Winner
English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks

Shortlist
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

Longlist
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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