The Waterlands - Book Launch by Stephen Rutt
About This Event
Join local author, Stephen Rutt at the launch of his fourth book, The Waterlands.
Stephen is a writer and naturalist, specialising in creative non-fiction prose and birds.
His first book, The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds, was about the charismatic seabirds of Britain, the dramatic coastal places they live and the people who study them, live with them and write about them. For The Seafarers, he won the Saltire Society’s first book award as well as a Society of Author's Roger Deakin award. It was long-listed for the Highland Book Prize. Wintering: A Season with Geese was his second book and concerned the lives of the wild geese that spend the winter with us in Britain and their cultural heritage. It was one of The Times’s best nature books of the year for 2019. The Eternal Season is his third book: it looks at our summer wildlife, from trees and flowers to dragonflies, butterflies, moths, natterjack toads and wasp spiders alongside plenty of familiar and unfamiliar summer birds. The narrative traces out the context, historic and current of these species and how we can see climate change in the changing nature of summer.
His writing has been published in The Guardian, The Scotsman, The Sunday Post, British Birds, EarthLines and Zoomorphic.
