Melissa Harrison

A wonderful meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison. Whenever rain falls, our countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows appear altered, the wildlife behaves differently, and over time the terrain itself is transformed. In Rain, Melissa Harrison explores our relationship with the weather as she follows the course of...

When I lived in London I barely noticed the winter solstice. Nothing slowed, contracted or dimmed to mark the shortest day of the year, for, like all cities, London has all but left such trifling considerations behind. But now I am in Suffolk, and the difference could not be more marked. I wake in dim half-light, the yellow windows of...

SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR A nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural Suffolk countryside. 'A writer of great gifts.' - Robert Macfarlane 'The journal of a writer to compare to Thomas Hardy. Melissa Harrison is among our most celebrated nature writers.' -...

Three tiny, ancient beings—Moss, Burnet, and Cumulus, once revered as Guardians of the Wild World—wake from winter hibernation in their beloved ash tree home. When it is destroyed, they set off on an adventure to find more of their kind, a journey which takes them first into the deep countryside and then to the heart of a city. Helped along...

As autumn begins, Moss and friends travel to their former home in Ash Row, to find the rare mortal child who can both see and talk to them. The tiny beings know they should be brave and talk back – this is their chance to help reverse the fading of ancient Cumulus, who has now almost disappeared entirely. But they...

Luminous and intimate, The Given World is a story of belonging, loss and the richly interwoven connections between people, history and place. From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of All Among the Barley. April brings spring surging with it, giving rise, among many in the village, to a comforting illusion that all is somehow still right with the world, and...

'Nobody writes about the natural world like her' INDIA KNIGHT 'Absolutely gorgeous . . . never has there been a nicer way to learn' KATE BRADBURY Welcome to your own, personal nature journal, and a new way of being in the world. A year-long course in noticing, you can start in any month and follow the stories unfolding around you...