Goshawk Summer: The Diary of an Extraordinary Season in the Forest by James Aldred (Elliot & Thompson, 2022)
Non-Fiction
Goshawk Summer: The Diary of an Extraordinary Season in the Forest by James Aldred (ISBN: 9781784878016) won the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. A wildlife cameraman, Aldred looks at what happens to nature when we are no longer there. Set in the New Forest, during the first lockdown, he observes the entrancing magic of wildlife in an extraordinary season. Empty of people but filled with birdsong and new life.