Stephen Rutt is the author of three books, The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds; Wintering: A Season with Geese; and, most recently, The Eternal Season: Ghosts of Summers Past, Present and Future.
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.
A new book, The Waterlands will be published in March 2026.
