Fraser MacDonald is the author of Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket which was published in the UK and US in 2019.
Fraser is a lecturer in Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh and writes for publications including The London Review of Books, the Guardian, Aeon, The Herald, The Age and Archipelago.
He is currently working on a new book, The Book of Compost: A Manual for Consolation and Repair, to be published in 2028.
Sally Huband’s debut book, Sea Bean: A Beachcomber’s Search for a Magical Charm was published to wide acclaim in 2023.
Sea Bean was the winner of the Highland Book Prize, 2023 and was also longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, 2023.
Sally’s writing has been included in the anthologies Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland and Moving Mountains: Writing Nature through Illness and Disability, and in publications including Archipelago, BBC Wildlife Magazine, The Island Review, Earthlines and Zoomorphic.
Sally was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2017.
Bob Gilbert is the author of three books, The Green London Way; Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish; and, most recently, The Missing Musk: A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World.
Ghost Trees was longlisted for both the Wainwright Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize.
Bob has written a newspaper column on urban wildlife for the last twenty-five years and has contributed to several TV and radio programmes, including BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Susurrations of Trees’ and ‘The Passion in Plants’.
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.’
Amy Liptrot is the author of two books, The Outrun and The Instant, both of which were Sunday Times bestsellers.
The Outrun was awarded both the Wainwright Prize in 2016 and the PEN Ackerley Prize in 2017, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize, 2016 and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, 2017. It was also a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and has been translated into 16 languages.
A film of The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt and starring Saoirse Ronan was released to wide acclaim in 2024. A stage adaptation, written by Stef Smith and directed by Vicky Featherstone for The Lyceum theatre, debuted at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2024.
The Instant was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing in 2022.
Amy writes columns and reviews for publications including the Guardian and Caught by the River. In 2021 she presented the BBC Radio 4 series The New Anatomy of Melancholy. Her work has also been included in the anthologies, Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland and Goodbye Europe.
Amy is currently working on a new book, The Tangles to be published early in 2027.
Stephen Rutt is the author of four books, The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds; Wintering: A Season with Geese; The Eternal Season: Ghosts of Summers Past, Present and Future; and, most recently, The Waterlands: Follow a Raindrop from Source to Sea.
The Seafarers won the Saltire First Book of the Year in 2019, a Roger Deakin Award and was longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, 2019.
Wintering was one of the Times’s Best Nature Books of the Year for 2019.
The Eternal Season was shortlisted for the Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year in 2022.
Stephen writes for publications including the Guardian, Granta.com, The Scotsman and Caught by the River.
Anna Fleming’s debut book, Time on Rock: A Climber’s Route into the Mountains was published in 2022 to wide acclaim.
Time on Rock was shortlisted for both the Wainwright Prize and the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.
Anna writes for publications including Caught by the River, the Guardian and UKClimbing, as well as keeping her own blog The Granite Sea.
She is currently working on a new book, Mountain Women, to be published in 2028.
