Author of the Sunday Times bestseller ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: LIFE IN THE POST-HUMAN LANDSCAPE—winner of @youngwriteryear, shortlisted for the @BGPrize.
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I had some very lovely news
We are absolutely thrilled that @calflyn is one of two recipients of the E. M. Forster Award 2024 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Huge congratulations, Cal! 🎉
Read more here: artsandletters.org/pressrele…
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🌍 We're delighted to announce the 2026 Shortlist for the #WainwrightPrize for Conservation Writing.
Hopeful, thought-provoking and urgently relevant, these books explore the relationship between people and planet, and the ideas helping shape a better future for nature.
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If no place on Earth is truly untouched, what does "wilderness" really mean?
@CalFlyn joins @EconTalker to explore the surprising history of the world's wildest places—and why we still long to escape civilization.
Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:
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Optimism, Swedish lakes, 'gusto' and superb taste in books - thank you @palebackwriter - @calflyn IS the 'best nonfiction writer of her generation'. @WmCollinsBooks @AgentSophieL
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Con la Edición Especial Verde 2025, El Malpensante abre un espacio para pensar la naturaleza no solo como escenario, sino como interrogante estético, cultural y vital. Lo esperamos en el Lanzamiento, uno de los espacios que como animalejos en vía de extinción resisten, para pensar la Tierra.
“Es cierto que aquí no somos catastrofistas, pero sí tenemos que afirmar lo siguiente con todas las letras: la Tierra nos sigue devolviendo con sargazos, sequías y ciclones las estocadas que propinamos sobre su lomo azul". Lea el texto de presentación del número en: elmalpensante.com/articulo/i…
Este doble número (272–273) reúne voces que exploran la relación entre literatura, arte, filosofía y ciencia con aquello que nos rodea.
🌿 Acompáñenos al lanzamiento de esta edición especial. Inscripción previa, cupos limitados.
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I was asked to choose five modern classic books that I love for this… thanks to @calflyn
Modern Classics - Five Books Expert Recommendations fivebooks.com/best-books/mod…
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Really looking forward to welcoming @calflyn, bestselling author of ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, and @PeterEBurns, author of SHADOW THIEVES, to our roadshow event at @WaterstonesGla this evening! 📚✨
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Delighted to say that I'll be appearing at this "sparkling" Scottish writing showcase alongside @eilidhakilade_, @calflyn, Katie Goh & @forthygreatpain at the @edbookfest in August. Tickets & details below 👇
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Shortlisted for the @WainwrightPrize 2025 and a @FT Book of the Year, BOTHY by @Katricianh is out today in paperback!
🌾 'Will have you reaching for your boots’ @CalFlyn
🌾BOTHY is a stirring, beautiful book for anyone who longs to run away to the wilds.
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'An eerie exploration of a strange and surprising element, and a plangent warning of a looming environmental crisis that needs our attention.' - @calflyn
Available to preorder now! bit.ly/white-light-preorder
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Two decades ago, researchers started an experiment that would challenge the prevailing scientific understanding of plant communities.
While modern agriculture treats diversity as inefficient, the Jena Experiment proved the opposite: complexity is the key to resilience.
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«Una investigación urgente, profunda e interminablemente interesante sobre nuestro asombroso despilfarro y la crisis medioambiental que está creando delante de nuestras narices». @calflyn, autora de Islas del abandono, sobre Vertedero, de @olifranklin.
"The scale of recent global farmland abandonment is a staggering and still largely untold story... Globally, an area of land half the size of Australia, around a billion acres, has recently been relinquished"
From our archives: Vasts swaths of abandoned land are ripe for rewilding, experts say, with huge potential to boost wildlife and draw down carbon.
e360.yale.edu/features/aband…
Is anyone out there able to help me access this chapter? academic.oup.com/book/55944/… I'd be v v grateful!
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'After long, companionable days working alongside the women, Rebanks begins to view these swaggering interlopers through female eyes: their noise, their carelessness, their arrogance.'
Cal Flyn (@calflyn) on a woman who tends eider ducks the-tls.co.uk/lives/autobiog…
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Under the Changing Skies deftly moves through the seasons to capture the essence of the countryside 🍂🍃🌷
Featuring contributions from @calflyn, Josie George, @nicolawriting, @MarkCocker2, @LevParikian, @AmyJaneBeer, @Kate_Bradbury, @ruslandvalley and many more. Out today.
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What, this? Ah, well I'm glad you asked. It's a new @GdnCountryDiary anthology that I have a few pieces in, alongside @LevParikian, @steverutt, @calflyn, @carey_davies and that lot.
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And finally, @calflyn at @ToppingsStAs - St Andrews at 6:50 PM on Friday 27th September
toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st…
Do come along!
#climbingdays #dorothypilley #dorothypilleyrichards #danrichards #alimillar #peggyhughes #marthasprackland #louisayates #helenmort #calflyn
Such an interesting piece in the New Yorker about how the gender gaps in computer programming and crossword compiling (once female dominated, now largely the realm of men) flipped in the late 20th century
newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
