Mark Cocker is an author, naturalist and
environmental activist who writes and broadcasts on nature and
wildlife in a variety of national media. His ten books include works
of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir. His latest
books are Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet (2014)
and Birds and People (Jonathan Cape), which was published
to international acclaim in 2013 and was a collaboration with
the photographer David Tipling. His previous book Crow Country
was shortlisted for several awards, including the Samuel Johnson
Prize (2008), and won the New Angle Prize for Literature (2009). He
is a co-founder of New Networks for Nature, an eco organisation
that asserts the central importance of landscape and nature in
British cultural life. For the last 35 years his home has been in
Norfolk, where time is divided between the county's celebrated
wildlife, an organic allotment and the restoration of a small wooded
fen. He is married to the arts professional Mary Muir.
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Mark will be bringing some copies of Birds and People and Claxton so bring some cash!
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