Digest out now!

I always enjoy this newsletter by Tiffany Francis-Baker, but the latest edition is particularly special. Thrilled to see Nature's Ghosts is her book of the month!

tiffanyfrancisbaker.com/p/april-book-c…

If only there were a book about ghosts in an environmental context, dealing with precisely these issues.

Oh wait! There's one coming out next month. Pre-orders: amazon.co.uk/Natures-Ghosts…

Seaglass has gone to print! And I'm actually so excited. But now the hard part... Book sales.

Pre orders are the bestest thing for anxious new authors like me. Do it however you like - bookshop or online - and you'll be my hero (and be the first to get your copy come 9th May) 💚

The Inkcap Journal weekly digest is out. A good one for insect lovers – much more bug content than usual.

I thought I'd come across every possible unorthodox archive of past environments while researching my book. But old, unopened cans of salmon is a new and particularly weird one.

Retweeting all of these because, after three years of cloistering myself away with this book, seeing it in the hands of others is the greatest thrill.

Some exciting reading for train journeys today 🦌📚
Sophie Yeo
HarperNorth

I was always going to read Seaglass: it starts in the town I grew up, & ends in the region I live now, so the places are all unusually familiar.

Coincidences aside, this is a luminous book, with some lovely meditations on wilderness & descriptions of the Durham coastline.

First appearance of NATURE'S GHOSTS in the wild! Heart-rate increasing a little...

Rumours are FLYING in the neighborhood Facebook groups that water voles have been reintroduced to local park. Experts saying its nonsense. Emotions running high. Either way, never seen such impassioned conversation about water voles before.

Sunday reading. Hoping I'll be able to get through a chunk, given I'm clearly not going anywhere quickly. Have been really looking forward to this one from Noreen Masud.

As if by some miracle, the Inkcap Journal digest is out! And that is all thanks to Coreen Grant, for writing most of my half, when I majorly underestimated the difficulty of relocating a toddler and lynx-sized cat into a small AirBnB room for a night.
inkcapjournal.co.uk/national-parks…

A bit of a shortage of content for the SCIENCE section in this week's digest. If you have published a peer-reviewed study on conservation & ecology over the past week, let me know!

Next weekend (14 April), I am running an online writing workshop for the Mammal Society. Come along!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-writi…

A fascinating obituary for an extraordinary palaeobotanist: Estella Bergere Leopold.

'She argued that the value of a place was partly the result of its ecological history and how environmental events shape it.'

Yes yes yes!
nature.com/articles/d4158…