WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025

A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024

'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER

'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES

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The lie of the land: that Britain’s landowners care for the countryside.

Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good stewards. But these same landowners have carelessly trampled over our best-loved landscapes, leaving the rivers polluted, fenlands drained, and moorlands burned.

Guy Shrubsole has travelled across Britain to expose the lie and meet the communities fighting back to restore our lost landscapes. This is a bold, shared vision for our nation’s wild places, and how we can treat them with the awe and care they deserve.

*Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-04-30*

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS*

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNWIN AWARD*

This Sunday Times bestseller is a must-read for anyone interested in environmental conservation and the protection of habitats. Shrubsole's non-fiction work is a deep dive into the science of ecosystems, the politics of agriculture, and the social implications of rural land management.

For fans of Robin Wall Kimmerer (The Democracy of Species), Derek Gow (Birds, Beasts and Bedlam), Christopher Hart (Hedgelands [US Edition]), Yanis Varoufakis (Technofeudalism), and Isabella Tree (Wilding).

HarperCollins 2024

The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?