Nature Book Reader
Feature writer and music columnist Laura Barton will be hosting a Caught By The River Nature Book Reader session on the Sunday lunchtime. Three special guests will be discussing their all-time favourite book of nature writing, before giving a short reading from their chosen book.
Caught By The River’s Nature Book Reader is a unique and fascinating collection of essays from a cross-section of writers, contributors, artists and enthusiasts to the Caught by the River website. The final collection was so rich and diverse, it is now a permanent and growing part of the website.
Laura’s first guest will be Laura Beatty, author of one of Caught By The River’s favourite recent novels, Pollard. Laura lives in Salcey Forest, is married with three children and has three dogs, three chickens, eight cows, one horse, one turtle and several hundred unkillable rats and mice.
Chris Watson is one of the world’s leading sound recordist – “the David Attenburgh of the radio” – whose album, Weather Report, was named in The Guardian’s ‘1,000 Albums before you Die’. Creator of Port Eliot’s much-loved Nature Disco, having recorded everywhere from Borneo to the Antarctic, Chris has got closer to Mother Nature than many of us could dream of.
The third guest will be announced shortly.
Laura Barton is a feature writer and music columnist for the Guardian, and has written for The Word, Intelligent Life and Radio 4. Her first book, Twenty One Locks, is published by Quercus this July.
Links:
- A Nature Book Reader
