The Soaring Life of the Lark ( Doubleday, 2021) explores the music and poetry the breath-taking heights and struggle to survive of one of Britain's most iconic songbirds.Exploring a long and sometimes complicated relationship, The Wild Life of the Fox ( Doubleday, 2020) captures our love – and sometimes loathing – of this magnificent creature in vivid detail and lyrical prose.And in vivid, elegant prose he celebrates how, in an age when television cameras have revealed so much in our landscape, the hare remains as elusive and magical as ever. The Private Life of the Hare ( Doubleday, 2019) John explores myths, history and the reality of the hare.From the Angles to Nelson's Navy, and even in the digital Apple age the real oak still has resonance. His second short book, The Glorious Life of the Oak ( Doubleday, 2018) explores our relationship with Britain's most beloved and common tree.John Lewis-Stempel explores the legends and history of this magnificent creature. They feature in every major culture from the Stone Age to the Harry Potter series. The first, The Secret Life of the Owl ( Doubleday, 2017) explores our captivation with the bird. John has also been working on a series of short books. In 2018 it was nominated for Books Are My Bag Reader's Award 'Most Beautiful Book'. The Wood ( Doubleday, 2018) follows a year in the English woodlands during John's time managing Cockshutt wood. The book makes John Lewis-Stempel the first author to win the Wainwright Prize twice, first in 2015 and again in 2017 - being nominated twice in 2017 for Where Poppies Blow and The Running Hare. Where Poppies Blow ( Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2016) is the unique story of the British soldiers of the Great War and their relationship with the animals and plants around them. It tells the story of the wild animals and plants that live in and under our ploughland through the eyes of man who took on a field and husbanded it in a natural, traditional way, restoring its fertility and wildlife, bringing back the old farmland flowers and animals. Published in 2016 The Running Hare ( Doubleday, 2016) was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Told in exquisite prose, it provides a unique and intimate account of the passing seasons in an ancient meadow on John's farm. The 2015 Thwaites Wainwright Prize winning Meadowland ( Doubleday, 2014)was published to great acclaim in 2014. He is a columnist for Country Life and the author of a number of books including England: The Autobiography, (Penguin, 2005), The Wild Life, (Doubleday, 2009) Six Weeks, ( Orion, 2011) and The War Behind the Wire ( Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2014) - an account of the lives of British soldiers in Prisoner of War camps. John Lewis-Stempel is a writer and farmer.
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