This year’s shortlist for The Wainwright Prize has been announced. Now in its third year, this prize awards £5,000 annually to the work that best reflects renowned nature writer Alfred Wainwright’s core values of celebrating the great British outdoors.

The six shortlisted titles are:

• Common Ground by Rob Cowen
• The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
• Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
• The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy
• The Fish Ladder by Katharine Norbury
• The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks

Chair of judges Dame Fiona Reynolds says:

‘We are thrilled to present a shortlist of books that so wonderfully showcases the great breadth and depth of work inspired by our natural world. Our landscape has never been more challenged by change and in very different ways these books remind us of the important role the natural world plays in our personal lives. Each book here provides a unique and uplifting discovery of some aspect or part of the UK, while gifting us with profound and moving experiences. Alfred Wainwright would be very pleased indeed.’

Find out more about this year’s shortlisted titles here.