Natural World: The Savage Landscape and The Tangles: 

Cal Flyn & Amy Liptrot in conversation with Jenny Niven

Amy Liptrot and Cal Flyn explore the natural world through writing that examines landscapes, place and our relationship with the environment.

Discussing The Tangles and The Savage Landscape, they’ll reflect on the ways wild places shape lives and stories, in a conversation chaired by Jenny Niven.

Amy Liptrot is the author of The Outrun and The Instant, which were both Sunday Times bestsellers. She writes columns and reviews for various magazines and newspapers including the Guardian and the Orcadian, and presented the BBC Radio 4 series The New Anatomy of Melancholy. The Outrun was awarded the Wainwright Prize and the PEN Ackerley Prize and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. It was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. In 2024 it was adapted by Amy and Nora Fingscheidt into a BAFTA and London Critics’ Circle Film Awards-nominated film starring Saoirse Ronan. Amy’s second book, The Instant, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize.

Cal Flyn is an author and journalist from the Highlands of Scotland. She worked as an investigative reporter for The Sunday Times and data reporter at the Telegraph before turning to literary non-fiction. Her first book Thicker Than Water, which examined colonialism and intergenerational guilt through the life story of a distant relative, was published in 2016 and was selected by The Times as one of the best books of that year. Her accolades include The Independent on Sunday/Bradt Prize for travel writing (2013).

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