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Submissions for the coveted East Anglian Book Awards, which celebrate the outstanding literary culture of our region, are now open.

Submissions for the coveted East Anglian Book Awards, which celebrate the outstanding literary culture of our region, are now open.

Submissions for the coveted East Anglian Book Awards, which celebrate the outstanding literary culture of our region, are now open.

Presented by nature writer Richard Mabey This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform. Bookers are sent a link in advance giving access and can watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time. Gilbert White was perhaps the first English naturalist, whose careful observations of his village laid the foundations of modern ecology, influencing Charles Darwin and generations of writers and artists.  Celebrate the summer equinox with ‘Britain’s foremost nature writer’ Richard Mabey who will tell White’s story, drawing from his book which won the Whitbread Biography P...

The butterfly effect During lockdown in spring last year I found and photographed a lapwing’s nest and thereby scratched a delicious itch that has been semi-dormant within me for 50 years. As a child I wilfully, illegally collected about a dozen wild birds’ eggs and stored these treasures in a shoebox in my bedroom. Most naturalists of my vintage will freely admit that this is how their lifelong passions for wildlife began. By 12 years old I had abandoned the illicit ways of my youth, but even today I find wild bird nests and their contents completely entrancing. Gazing down at this lap...