Tag: ecology

1 May

Mischief Makers: Jackie Morris in conversation with John Mitchinson

Join Jackie in conversation with her publisher and friend, John Mitchinson while she summons one of her magical creatures into life in paint on stage

Tickets on sale now here

Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator. She lives in a small house beside the sea in Wales, with cats and dogs for company. She studied illustration at Hereford College of Art and Bath Academy and has illustrated many books, and written some. The Lost Words, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019. In the same year she published The Unwinding with Unbound, and they have committed to re-issuing and re-designing her backlist beginning with Song of the Golden Hare (Sep 2020) and East of the Sun, West of the Moon (Mar 2021) and The Wild Swans (Mar 2021).

Accordion Books are an exciting new series created by Jackie Morris and published by Unbound.

An Accordion Book doesn’t open, it unfolds. One side is filled with beautiful watercolour images of an animal: sometimes in motion, sometimes at rest. The other is filled with text – poems, descriptions, invocations – inspired by the same animal.

Together they work as spell to summon the animal’s spirit. Jackie has painted them using antique watercolours, some from boxes which haven’t been opened for over 150 years, woken from their slumber with a single drop of water.

Beautifully produced at 152mm x 103mm, and printed on 440 gsm card, with foiled paper board covers foiled and a sleeve to hold the book snug, they have been designed by Alison O’Toole, who has worked with Jackie on all her recent books, including The Lost Words and The Unwinding.

18 Feb

Two Lights Walking through Landscapes of Loss and Life – Book Launch

Join us for books and wine as we celebrate the launch of James Roberts’ new book Two Lights – An extraordinary account of searching for the wilderness left in our world, spanning continents and geological eras, skies and oceans, animals and birds and even the planets and stars.

By Walking at dawn and dusk, through the two lights of awakening and regathering, through the stripped windswept hills of Wales, and the jungles and savannahs of Africa, he tries to find a way from a soul-stripping sense of loss towards hope in the future.

In the resilience of wild creatures he finds a way back to life.

“Deeply personal yet always outward looking, James Roberts delights in the world he discovers about him. Yet he also trembles, because he understands like winter light, that world is diminished … and diminishing … Two Lights reveals why all of us should be writers.”

Robert Minhinnick, poet and author of Diary of the Last Man

“A moving meditation on loss and fragility, tenderly tracing a love of wild creatures across landscapes of damaged yet deeply felt meaning. Startling and generous beauty, Two Lights finds light in the wondrous presence of others and the interconnectedness of all living things.”

Julian Hoffman, author of Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places
18 Feb

Two Lights Walking through Landscapes of Loss and Life – Book Launch

Join us for books and wine as we celebrate the launch of James Roberts’ new book Two Lights – An extraordinary account of searching for the wilderness left in our world, spanning continents and geological eras, skies and oceans, animals and birds and even the planets and stars.

By Walking at dawn and dusk, through the two lights of awakening and regathering, through the stripped windswept hills of Wales, and the jungles and savannahs of Africa, he tries to find a way from a soul-stripping sense of loss towards hope in the future.

In the resilience of wild creatures he finds a way back to life.

“Deeply personal yet always outward looking, James Roberts delights in the world he discovers about him. Yet he also trembles, because he understands like winter light, that world is diminished … and diminishing … Two Lights reveals why all of us should be writers.”

Robert Minhinnick, poet and author of Diary of the Last Man

“A moving meditation on loss and fragility, tenderly tracing a love of wild creatures across landscapes of damaged yet deeply felt meaning. Startling and generous beauty, Two Lights finds light in the wondrous presence of others and the interconnectedness of all living things.”

Julian Hoffman, author of Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places