The Wainwright Prize Longlists 2026

All the books on the Conservation and Nature Writing longlists for the 2026 Wainwright Prize. (non-fiction)

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last updated July, 2026

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NATURE WRITING:

  • Being an Oak by Laurent Tillon
  • Love is a Toad by Lucy Lapwing
  • The Whispers of Rock by Anjana Khatwa
  • Stone Lands by Fiona Robertson
  • The Genius of Trees by Harriet Rix
  • Grasslands by John Wright
  • The Waterlands by Stephen Rull
  • An Inconvenience of Penguins by Jamie Lafferty
  • The Cuckoo's Lea by Michael J. Warren
  • CraftLand by James Fox
  • Ancient by Luke Barley
  • My Body is a Meadow by Bethany Hadley
  • Ghosts of the Farm by Nicola Chester
  • Wild Pavements by Amanda Tuke

CONSERVATION WRITING:

  • When the Forest Breathes by Suzanne Simard
  • The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn
  • Every Last Fish by Rose George
  • Frontierlands by Hazel Sheffield
  • The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit
  • Green Crime by Julia Shaw
  • Snö by Sverker Sörlin
  • Neurodivergent by Nature by Joe Harkness
  • Drifting North by Dominic Hinde
  • Wilderlands by Eloise Kane
  • Eat the Planet Well by Dave Goulson
  • How to Fall in Love With the Future by Rob Hopkins
  • Plastic Inc. by Beth Gardiner
  • The Return of the Oystercatcher by Scott Weidensaul
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