James Cropper Wainwright Prize

Given by The Wainwright Society

Other Names: Thwaites Wainwright Prize, The Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing
150 Works / 151 Items 30,647 Books 1,197 Reviews ½ 4.0
The Wainwright Prize is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of general outdoors, nature and UK-based travel writing. It celebrates the legacy of British guidebook writer Alfred show more Wainwright. The prize was established by Frances Lincoln Publishers and The Wainwright Society, in association with The National Trust and is sponsored by Thwaites Brewery, who produce a beer called Wainwright Ale. The prize was first awarded in 2014. The winner receives a cheque for £5,000. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (19), Shortlist (102), Longlist (34)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2024 (21), 2023 (16), 2022 (20), 2021 (11), 2020 (12), 2019 (11), 2018 (12), 2017 (12), 2016 (12), 2015 (12), 2014 (12)
Announced:
September 11: Winner2024 Recent

Winner 19

WorkCategoryYear
Foxlight by Katya BalenChildren's Writing2024
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works by Helen CzerskiConservation Writing2024
Late Light: The Secret Wonders of a Disappearing World by Michael MalayNature Writing2024
Leila and the Blue Fox by Kiran Millwood HargraveChildren's Writing2023
The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy ShrubsoleConservation Writing2023
The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness by Amy-Jane BeerNature Writing2023
The Biggest Footprint: Eight Billion Humans. One Clumsy Giant. by Rob SearsChildren's Writing2022
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan SaladinoConservation Writing2022
Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other by James AldredNature Writing2022
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin SheldrakeGlobal Conservation2021
English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James RebanksUK Nature Writing2021
Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds by Benedict MacdonaldGlobal Conservation2020
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnultyUK Nature Writing2020
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane2019
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers by Adam Nicolson2018
Where Poppies Blow by John Lewis-Stempel2017
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot2016
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field by John Lewis-Stempel2015
The Green Road Into the Trees: An Exploration of England by Hugh Thomson2014

Shortlist 102

WorkCategoryYear
Foxlight by Katya BalenChildren's Writing2024
The Observologist: A Handbook for Mounting Very Small Scientific Expeditions by Giselle ClarksonChildren's Writing2024
Global: One fragile world. An epic fight for survival. by Eoin ColferChildren's Writing2024
Skrimsli by Nicola DaviesChildren's Writing2024
In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen by Kiran Millwood HargraveChildren's Writing2024
Fly: A Family Guide to Birds and How to Spot Them by David LindoChildren's Writing2024
Impossible Creatures by Katherine RundellChildren's Writing2024
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella TreeChildren's Writing2024
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works by Helen CzerskiConservation Writing2024
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-WallisConservation Writing2024
Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar by Chantal LyonsConservation Writing2024
It's Not Just You by Tori TsuiConservation Writing2024
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John VaillantConservation Writing2024
Nature’s Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back by Sophie YeoConservation Writing2024
Late Light: The Secret Wonders of a Disappearing World by Michael MalayNature Writing2024
Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Country Garden by Marchelle FarrellNature Writing2024
Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat HillNature Writing2024
Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness by Alastair HumphreysNature Writing2024
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia LaingNature Writing2024
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. LeeNature Writing2024
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside by Rebecca SmithNature Writing2024
Blobfish by Olaf FalafelChildren's Writing2023
Spark by M. G. LeonardChildren's Writing2023
A Wild Child's Book of Birds by Dara McAnultyChildren's Writing2023
Grandpa and the Kingfisher by Anna WilsonChildren's Writing2023
Beastly: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us by Keggie CarewConservation Writing2023
Rewilding the Sea: How to Save our Oceans by Charles CloverConservation Writing2023
Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution by Sarah LangfordConservation Writing2023
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World by Gaia VinceConservation Writing2023
Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane BurnettNature Writing2023
Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen MossNature Writing2023
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast by Dorthe NorsNature Writing2023
The Golden Mole by Katherine RundellNature Writing2023
Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home by Amanda ThomsonNature Writing2023
October, October by Katya BalenChildren's Writing2022
One World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth by Nicola DaviesChildren's Writing2022
Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan DroriChildren's Writing2022
Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood HargraveChildren's Writing2022
By Rowan and Yew by Melissa HarrisonChildren's Writing2022
Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature by Dara McAnultyChildren's Writing2022
Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis by Alice BellConservation Writing2022
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave GoulsonConservation Writing2022
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World by Oliver MilmanConservation Writing2022
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George MonbiotConservation Writing2022
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben RawlenceConservation Writing2022
Wild Fell: Fighting for nature on a Lake District hill farm by Lee SchofieldConservation Writing2022
On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging by Nicola ChesterNature Writing2022
Time on Rock: A Climber's Route into the Mountains by Anna FlemingNature Writing2022
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain by Matthew GreenNature Writing2022
Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas HallidayNature Writing2022
The Instant by Amy LiptrotNature Writing2022
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by Sir David AttenboroughGlobal Conservation2021
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal FlynGlobal Conservation2021
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca GiggsGlobal Conservation2021
Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change by Dieter HelmGlobal Conservation2021
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth KolbertGlobal Conservation2021
Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie by Charlie GilmourUK Nature Writing2021
Thin Places by Kerri ní DochartaighUK Nature Writing2021
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita SethiUK Nature Writing2021
The Wild Silence by Raynor WinnUK Nature Writing2021
What We Need to Do Now: A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth by Chris GoodallGlobal Conservation2020
Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places by Julian HoffmanGlobal Conservation2020
Life Changing: How Humans are Altering Life on Earth by Helen PilcherGlobal Conservation2020
Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World’s Wild Places by Jeremy PursegloveGlobal Conservation2020
Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World by Carolyn SteelGlobal Conservation2020
Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town by Lamorna AshUK Nature Writing2020
The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel by David GangeUK Nature Writing2020
Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape by Patrick LaurieUK Nature Writing2020
On the Red Hill by Mike ParkerUK Nature Writing2020
Wanderland by Jini ReddyUK Nature Writing2020
Time Song : journeys in search of a submerged land by Julia Blackburn2019
The Easternmost House by Juliet Blaxland2019
Our Place: Can We Save Britain’s Wildlife Before It Is Too Late? by Mark Cocker2019
Thinking on My Feet: The small joy of putting one foot in front of another by Kate Humble2019
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree2019
Out of the Woods by Luke Turner2019
The Last Wilderness: A Journey into Silence by Neil Ansell2018
Hidden Nature: A Voyage of Discovery by Alys Fowler2018
Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt by John Grindrod2018
The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood by John Lister-Kaye2018
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane2018
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn2018
Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey by Madeleine Bunting2017
The Running Hare: The secret life of farmland by John Lewis-Stempel2017
Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife by Stephen Moss2017
The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain by Christopher Somerville2017
The Wild Other: A memoir of love, adventure and how to be brave by Clover Stroud2017
Common Ground by Rob Cowen2016
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane2016
The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy by Michael McCarthy2016
The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream by Katharine Norbury2016
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape by James Rebanks2016
Running Free: A Runner's Journey Back to Nature by Richard Askwith2015
The moor: lives landscape literature by William Atkins2015
Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet by Mark Cocker2015
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald2015
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place by Philip Marsden2015
Walking Home by Simon Armitage2014
Badgerlands: The Twilight World of Britain's Most Enigmatic Animal by Patrick Barkham2014
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins2014
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane2014
Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary by Esther Woolfson2014

Longlist 34

WorkYear
Landfill by Tim Dee2019
Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish by Bob Gilbert2019
The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas2019
Lanny by Max Porter2019
Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago by Patrick Barkham2018
21st-Century Yokel by Tom Cox2018
The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood by John Lewis-Stempel2018
A Wood of One's Own by Ruth Pavey2018
The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young2018
The otters' tale by Simon Cooper2017
The Nature of Autumn by Jim Crumley2017
Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain by Lucy Jones2017
A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt2017
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir by Chris Packham2017
Love,Madness,Fishing by Dexter Petley2017
Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore by Patrick Barkham2016
Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide by Charles Foster2016
Weatherland: Writers and Artists Under English Skies by Alexandra Harris2016
Rain: Four Walks in English Weather by Melissa Harrison2016
Raptor: A Journey Through Birds by James Macdonald Lockhart2016
Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places by Anna Pavord2016
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald2015
Walking Home: Great British Adventures... and Other Rambles by Clare Balding2015
The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills by Tristan Gooley2015
Britannia Obscura: Mapping Hidden Britain by Joanne Parker2015
The Ash Tree by Oliver Rackham2015
On Silbury Hill by Adam Thorpe2015
Counting Sheep: A Celebration of the Pastoral Heritage of Britain by Philip Walling2015
Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal by Al Alvarez2014
Deer Island by Neil Ansell2014
The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare2014
Holloway by Robert Macfarlane2014
Ramble on by Sinclair McKay2014
Silt Road: The Story of a Lost River by Charles Rangeley-Wilson2014

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