Robert Macfarlane

Enjoy stunning images and moving words in your home office or living room with The Lost Spells 2026 Wall Calendar. Based on the poetry book by award-winning duo Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, retreat into a tranquil nature of brushstroke illustrations accompanied by thoughtful psalms about everyday species. The calendar is a call to readers to notice the natural beauty that can be lost amidst the busyness of life. Featuring 12 full breathtaking and stunning illustrations of nature and animals Bonus spread for September–December 2025 Generous grids for adding appointments and reminders Includes major official world holidays Opens to 12 inches x 24 inches

Those already familiar with The Lost Words will know it as a work full of wildness, beauty and power. Jackie Morris has called The Lost Words a "wild dictionary", celebrating nature words that are falling from common usage (Dandelion, Acorn, Bramble, Otter) and the natural world they refer to. This bestselling and multi award-winning book has become, as the Guardian puts it, 'a cultural phenomenon', finding its way into the lives and dreams of hundreds of thousands of people around the world, inspiring hope, wonder and change. Working with the authors, Galileo has produced a stunning 1000 piece jigsaw featuring the iconic otter illustration which has featured in many of the live events. Importantly, Macfarlane's 'spell' that accompanies the image in the book is also featured on the back of the box. The book has sold well over 200,000 copies and has won many awards, among them: Joint Winner: Children's Book of the Year 2018 (British Book of the Year Awards). Winner: Hay Festival Book of the Year 2017. Winner: BAMB Most Beautiful Book of the Year 2017. Shortlisted: Waterstones Book of the Year 2017.

'A wonderful evocation of Britain's natural beauty and a reminder of our need to connect with the wilderness' The Times Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? From forest to moor, mountain to saltmarsh, Robert Macfarlane explores the wild places of Britain to see the wonders we still possess. In his beautiful, bewitching, inspiring modern classic of nature writing, the acclaimed author of Underland and The Lost Words presents a portrait of a vanishing but still miraculous British landscape. 'Time and again he takes the reader's breath away' Financial Times 'A marvellously evocative portrait of place' Sunday Telegraph

Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law.Macfarlane takes readers on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary people, stories, and places: to the miraculous cloud-forests and mountain streams of Ecuador, to the wounded creeks and lagoons of India, and to the spectacular wild rivers of Canada--imperiled respectively by mining, pollution, and dams. Braiding these journeys is the life story of the fragile chalk stream a mile from Macfarlane's house, a stream who flows through his own years and days.Powered by dazzling prose and lit throughout by other minds and voices, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, challenge perspectives, and remind us that our fate flows with that of rivers--and always has.

'Captivating' - New Scientist'A wondrous work of walking, seeing and thinking' - Robert Macfarlane'A startlingly brilliant and moving debut' - William DalrympleA deep observation of coast and wetland, climate and self, by a leading Indian ecological activist.Introduction by Robert Macfarlane.Written in spellbinding prose, Intertidal reveals an unseen world. We hear frog calls through the night, spot butterflies miles into the ocean, see the churning of longshore currents, and meditate on worms' composting abilities. We also witness communities standing together to preserve the homes of the coast's inhabitants, both human and non-human.Intertidal asks us to reimagine values to live by; heeding the natural world, attending to the climate's calling, and moving away from the old political and cultural values that have proven ecologically disastrous. Set in beaches, marshes, and the wild places of the mind, Intertidal revels in the healing power of nature and explores what it means to reclaim an ecology that has been colonised.

The Guardian Best Children’s Books of 2024The Times Best Children’s Books of 2024 Waterstones Best Children’s Books of 2024 Shortlisted for Foyles Book of the Year 2024 On my way through the wood wound a thread through the dream... Take a lyrical journey with a father and son who walk together through an ever-changing landscape and discover a world to come that's filled with hope. This stunning picture book collaboration from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane, actor Johnny Flynn and illustrator Emily Sutton sings with a love of words and rhythm, and vividly conjures the magic of nature.Praise for TheWorld to Come “A lyrical journey filled with golden light, the intricate beauty of woodland and riverbank, and hope for the natural world’s future”—Guardian “A message of hope and beauty” —Countryfile“A lovely looking thing” —Mark Radcliffe, Radio 2 Folk Show "A rhythmic celebration of the natural world that visualizes miracles repeating over a long span of time—and rewards those who stop to notice them"-Publishers Weekly "Perfect for a nighttime read-aloud . . . An optimistic ode to the wonders of nature and the remarkable rhythm of life"-Booklist “A mesmerizing picture book”-Literary Hub

'A wonderful evocation of Britain's natural beauty and a reminder of our need to connect with the wilderness' The Times Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? From forest to moor, mountain to saltmarsh, Robert Macfarlane explores the wild places of Britain to see the wonders we still possess. In his bewitching and inspiring modern classic of nature writing, the acclaimed author of Underland and The Lost Words presents a portrait of a vanishing but still miraculous British landscape. 'Time and again he takes the reader's breath away' Financial Times 'A marvellously evocative portrait of place' Sunday Telegraph

'The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. In this ground-breaking, classic work, Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty, the fear and risk of adventure, and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the world's highest places. WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD

This publication offers a rich and expansive visual record of Julie Brook’s artistic practice, and proposes a unique collaboration between Brook and distinct voices from the nature writing and craftsmanship traditions. Situating Brook’s practice in the context of critical reflections by Robert Macfarlane, Alexandra Harris and Raku Jikinyu, the publication presents a striking visual narrative of Brook's landscape and tidal sculptural work, and a sense of its timeless yet contemporary resonance. Documenting in depth a number of recent works made in the Hebrides, Japan and Namibia, their shared attention to the elements and their key pre-occupations of the fleeting, mobile forces of light, time, and gravity demonstrate Brook’s coherent vision within vastly contrasting environments. Throughout her oeuvre, the balance between what Brook makes in relation to the environment and materials themselves is paramount. Including film stills, photography and drawing, which are all integral languages for conceptualising and communicating the work, plus insightful extracts from Brook’s notebooks, this beautiful publication succeeds in providing the reader with a unique understanding of the artist’s ‘monuments to the moment’.

The Lost Spells is a book authored by Robert Macfarlane and illustrated by Jackie Morris. They are the team that created the best selling The Lost Words published by Penguin Random House. This 1000 piece jigsaw takes as its source, the glossary section of the Lost Spells book along with Macfarlane's extraordinary 'spells' relating to each animal that is illustrated. The book was published in N. America by House of Anansi. The jigsaw features illustrations of over 50 different species of bird, animal and flora and fauna. It also identifies each separate item with both their common and their latin names.

Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway'Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb - it is an aftertime song. It is dark, ever so dark, nimble and lethal. It is a triumphant libretto of mythic modernism for our poisoned age. Ness is something else, and feels like it always has been' Max Porter, author of LannySomewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a ritual with terrible intent. But something is coming to stop him.Five more-than-human forms are traversing land, sea and time towards The Green Chapel, moving towards the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift, green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back.What happens when land comes to life? What would it take for land to need to come to life? Using word and image, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood have together made a minor modern myth. Part-novella, part-prose-poem, part-mystery play, in Ness their skills combine to dazzling, troubling effect.