Wainwright prize longlists announced

Here are three interesting lists of books which have been compiled by these three interesting lists of judges.

The 2022 James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing longlist is:

Otherlands: A World in the Making, Dr Thomas Halliday (Allen Lane)
12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature’s Lessons in Happiness, Charlie Corbett (Penguin)
Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other, James Aldred (Elliott & Thompson) – reviewed here
Much Ado About Mothing: A year intoxicated by Britain’s rare and remarkable moths, James Lowen (Bloomsbury Wildlife) – reviewed here
On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging, Nicola Chester (Chelsea Green Publishing) – reviewed here
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain, Matthew Green (Faber & Faber)
The Heeding, Rob Cowen, illustrated by Nick Hayes (Elliott & Thompson)
The Instant, Amy Liptrot (Canongate)
The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides, Adam Nicolson (William Collins)
The Trespasser’s Companion, Nick Hayes (Bloomsbury) – reviewed here
Time on Rock: A Climber’s Route into the Mountains, Anna Fleming (Canongate)
Wild Green Wonders: A Life in Nature, Patrick Barkham (Guardian Faber Publishing) – reviewed here

And then there is;

The 2022 James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation is:

Abundance: Nature in Recovery, Karen Lloyd (Bloomsbury Wildlife)
Aurochs and Auks, John Burnside (Little Toller Books)
Climate Change is Racist, Jeremy Williams and Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (Icon Books)
Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country, Anna Jones (Kyle Books) – to be reviewed here soon
Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, Dan Saladino (Jonathan Cape)
Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis, Alice Bell (Bloomsbury Sigma)
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet, George Monbiot (Allen Lane) – to be reviewed here soon
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse, Dave Goulson (Vintage) – reviewed here
Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales, Doreen Cunningham (Virago)
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World, Oliver Milman (Atlantic Books)
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth, Ben Rawlence (Jonathan Cape)
The Women Who Saved the English Countryside, Matthew Kelly (Yale University Press)
Wild Fell: Fighting for nature on a Lake District hill farm, Lee Schofield (Doubleday) – reviewed here

And also:

The 2022 James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Children’s Writing on Nature and Conservation longlist is:

A Bug’s World, Dr Erica McAlister, illustrated by Stephanie Fizer Coleman (Wren & Rook)
Around the World in 80 Trees, Ben Lerwill, illustrated by Kaja Kajfež (Welbeck)
By Rowan and Yew, Melissa Harrison (Chicken House)
Julia and the Shark, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, illustrated by Tom de Freston (Orion Children’s Books)
Nests, Susan Ogilvy (Particular Books)
October, October, Katya Balen, illustrated by Angela Harding (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
One World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth, Nicola Davies, illustrated by Jenni Desmond (Walker Books)
Spark, Mitch Johnson (Orion Children’s Books)
The Biggest Footprint: Eight billion humans. One clumsy giant, Rob Sears, illustrated by Tom Sears (Canongate)
The Summer We Turned Green, William Sutcliffe (Bloomsbury YA)
Twitch, G. Leonard (Walker Books)
Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature, Dara McAnulty, illustrated by Barry Falls (Macmillan Children’s Books)

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