New book: ‘The Jay, The Beech And The Limpetshell’

Finding Wild Things With My Kids. Out now from Icon Books.

The Break-down essay: Fascism And The British Countryside

“Nationalism and environmentalism go hand in hand,” say the Homeland Party, one of the far-right groups who have gained recent…

Greg Graffin, evolutionary biologist and lead singer of pioneering US band Bad Religion, talks music and rebellion.

I visited Lister’s Mill in Bradford for the Guardian Country Diary.

A short story broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

The sky shivers with fever and there are devils on the roofs of the public houses.

It’s the dizzying transitions of scale that best characterise our complicated relationship with insect lives.

I find myself telling my children: ‘Daddy’s doing his peregrines.’

There is as much of Blythe in the writing here as there is of the natural world of Wormingford.

This was never likely to be, in any sense, a critical biography.