The unmissable sequel to bestselling, award-winning, multi-adaptation hit The Lost Words.
Robert Macfarlane (Author)
Robert Macfarlane's Sunday Times- and New York Times-bestselling
books include Is a River Alive?, Underland, Landmarks, The Old
Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind, as well as a
book-length prose-poem, Ness. His work has been translated into
more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been
widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has
also written operas, plays, albums, choral works, and films
including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe.
Macfarlane has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur
Eliasson, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the
internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, The
Lost Words and The Lost Spells. In 2017, the American Academy of
Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature,
and in 2023 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston
International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction.
He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is presently
working on a graphic novel re-telling of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Macfarlane and Morris's latest project, The Book of Birds, will be
published in May 2026.
Jackie Morris (Author)
Jackie Morris has written or illustrated over seventy books,
including the beloved children's classics Tell Me a Dragon and East
of the Sun, West of the Moon and a volume of modern folklore for
readers of all ages, Wild Folk,
co-created with Tamsin Abbott, as well as introducing and
illustrating Barbara Newhall Follett's gem of wild literature, The
House Without Windows. She is the internationally bestselling and
award-winning co-creator of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells, two
books which have captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of
readers of all ages. In 2018 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal and
the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year for The Lost
Words.
Her artwork is held by public art collections in the UK and USA and
has been published in the New Statesman, Independent and Guardian
among other venues. She tours and performs with the Spell Songs
ensemble around the UK, and is a Fellow of Herefordshire Art
College.
Morris and Macfarlane's latest project, The Book of Birds, will be
published in May 2026.
The poems are beautiful, insightful and, at times, laugh-out-loud
funny; and together with the vivid artwork, wild creatures are
brought to life. A beautiful volume sure to be treasured by nature
lovers of all ages.
*i*
The most beautiful and thought-provoking book I've read this
year
*Observer on 'The Lost Words'*
Gorgeous to look at and to read. Give it to a child to bring back
the magic and scope of language
*Guardian on 'The Lost Words'*
A breathtaking book. Jackie Morris has created something that you
could spend all day looking at... Accessible and magical
*New Statesman on 'The Lost Words'*
Gilded and glorious, one of the year's loveliest books for all ages
over 10
*The Sunday Times on 'The Lost Words'*
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