Guy Shrubsole is the author of three books, Who Owns England?, The Lost Rainforests of Britain, both of which were Sunday Times bestsellers, and most recently, The Lie of the Land.
The Lost Rainforests of Britain won the 2023 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation and was shortlisted for The Richard Jefferies Award, 2022. It was also the Sunday Times Science Book of the Year for 2022. In May 2023 Waterstones selected The Lost Rainforests of Britain as their Book of the Month.
The Lie of the Land won the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing and was also shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2024.
Guy has written widely for publications including the Guardian, New Statesman and New Scientist.
Guy also works as an environmental campaigner, and has worked for Rewilding Britain, Friends of the Earth, the UK government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and New Zealand’s Ministry of Agriculture.
In 2025 Guy was shortlisted for the inaugural Unwin Award – which ‘recognises non-fiction writers in the earlier stages of their careers as authors, whose work is considered to have made a significant contribution to the world.’
