The Lost Words: Rediscover our natural world with this spellbinding book

About Jackie MorrisRobert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane (Author) Robert Macfarlane is the bestselling author of Mountains of the Mind The Wild Places The Old Ways Landmarks and Underland and co-creator of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award. Both books have been adapted for television by the BBC. The Lost Words won the Books Are My Bag Beautiful Book Award and the Hay Festival Book of the Year. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge and writes on environmentalism literature and travel for publications including the Guardian the Sunday Times and The New York Times. He is now working on his third book with long-time collaborator Jackie Morris: The Book of Birds.Jackie Morris (Author) Jackie Morris is the bestselling and award-winning co-creator of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells two books which have captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages. She also illustrated and introduced a new edition of Barbara Newhall Follett's lost classic of wild literature The House Without Windows. As an author Jackie Morris has produced over forty beloved children's books; as an artist she has also worked with the New Statesman Independent and Guardian among others. She won the Kate Greenaway Medal and the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year for The Lost Words in 2018. Jackie lives in a cottage on the cliffs of Pembrokeshire where she is now working on her forthcoming third book with long-time collaborator Robert Macfarlane: The Book of Birds.