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MARK COCKER is an author of creative non-fiction, as well as a naturalist and environmental tutor. He writes and broadcasts on nature and wildlife in a variety of national media. In 2024 he completes 36 years as a country diarist for The Guardian and Guardian Weekly and has now written about 1,200 articles for both papers. His 13 books include works of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir. They include Our Place (Cape, 2018), on the fate of British nature in the twentieth century, which was shortlisted for the Thwaites Wainwright and the Richard Jefferies Prizes. His longest and most arduous project, Birds and People (Cape, 2013), was published to international acclaim and was a collaboration with the photographer David Tipling. Earlier books including Crow Country won the New Angle Prize in 2009 while A Claxton Diary won the East Anglia Book Award in 2019. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from the University of East Anglia, where he has recently placed his archive. He lives in Buxton Derbyshire on the street where he was born and his partner of 40 years is the artist Mary Muir, from whom he gets many of his best ideas!

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• The Complete Insect: UNOFFICIAL BOOKCLUB NO 11
• Bohemian Waxwing: Europe’s bird-of-paradise
• Volunteers ’23
• Beetles of the World: Unofficial Bookclub No 10
• Bee Aware: my Unofficial BOOKCLUB NO 9
• UNOFFICIAL BOOKCLUB NO 8
• Unofficial Bookclub No 7
• Unofficial Book Club no 6
• The Unofficial Book Club no 5
• Spurn Revisited