Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize
‘Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening’ Sunday Times
A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor.
‘Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening’ Sunday Times
A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor.
‘Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening’ Sunday Times
A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor.
‘Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening’ Sunday Times
A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor.
‘Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening’ Sunday Times
A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor.
'Packed with insight and anecdote, his story brings the Tower ravens to vivid life, each bird with a personality of its own. I've been fortunate enough to tour the Tower and meet the ravens a few times in years past; after reading this book, I cannot wait to go back' George R. R. Martin
We live in a world that prizes the fast over the slow, the new over the familiar and work over rest. Birds Art Life Death is Kyo Maclear’s beautiful journey to stake out a sense of meaning amid the crushing rush.
Winner of The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011 and the Authors' Foundation Roger Deakin Award in 2011
A stunning debut in the tradition of Robert Macfarlane and Helen Macdonald
‘Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything in my care, I look for a little sky. There are always birds flying back and forth, city birds flitting around our human edges, singing their songs.’
‘Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything in my care, I look for a little sky. There are always birds flying back and forth, city birds flitting around our human edges, singing their songs.’
‘Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything in my care, I look for a little sky. There are always birds flying back and forth, city birds flitting around our human edges, singing their songs.’
‘Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything in my care, I look for a little sky. There are always birds flying back and forth, city birds flitting around our human edges, singing their songs.’
A stunning debut in the tradition of Robert Macfarlane and Helen Macdonald
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