In brief: The Accidental Garden; Everything’s Fine; Freakslaw – reviews
Bob Gibbons obituary
March 2021
Richard Mabey: 'Viruses and man-eating tigers and predatory Asian hornets are all part of nature'
A pioneer of British nature writing, Richard Mabey has always been years ahead of his time. So how does he think the pandemic will change our relationship to the natural world?
November 2015
Lunch with...
Richard Mabey: ‘I always argued against the idea that foraging was new’
Book of the day
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination by Richard Mabey review – a hymn to flower power
October 2015
Richard Mabey – how plants think
Beans locate their poles by echolocation, the mimosa shrub has a memory-span greater than that of a bee … New discoveries in botany support an older idea of plants as individuals – active agents in their own life stories
March 2015
The 10 best ...
The 10 best nature books
We celebrate the arrival of spring with a selection of the best nature writing
February 2015
My hero
My hero: Oliver Rackham by Richard Mabey
A tribute to the botanist and nature writer who died last week. By
March 2014
Dreams of the Good Life review – a compelling biography of Flora Thompson
Rachel Cooke: The great British nature writer Richard Mabey sheds welcome light on the creator of Lark Rise to Candleford
December 2013
Comfort reading
Comfort reading: The Barley Bird: Notes on the Suffolk Nightingale by Richard Mabey
Kate Kellaway continues our series of seasonal reads with a beautiful hymn to these rare birds
July 2013
Point of view
Richard Mabey: in defence of nature writing
Steven Poole criticised nature writers – and their readers – for whimsy and for idealising the non-human world. He was wrong
March 2013
Notes from the underground: tube stories
Even claustrophics may warm to the underground after reading the 12 books in this beautifully designed box set, writes Tom Cox
Turned Out Nice Again: On Living with the Weather by Richard Mabey – review
Flying cats? Red rains? Alexandra Harris finds Richard Mabey's weather diaries unexpectedly gripping
Turned Out Nice Again by Richard Mabey – review
Richard Mabey explores our relationship with the changeable British weather with thoughtful elegance, writes Rachel Cooke
February 2013
Richard Mabey: the unpredictable power of nature
It governs our moods, the clothes we wear, the things we do, what we talk about. But, for Richard Mabey, the weather holds the delightful promise of a new day as he finds himself mesmerised by the unpredictable power of nature
January 2013
Debut author
Debut author: Melissa Harrison
The 37-year-old's first novel combines fiction with nature writing to reveal the consequences of ignoring our natural environment, writes Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy
December 2012
2013 the year ahead
Nonfiction for spring – preview
Adam Thorpe: 'One can hardly say I've been unambitious'
March 2012
Rachel Cooke on food
Definitely Mabey
Chefs think they're being ultra-modern putting pine needles on their menus, but Richard Mabey was there first, 40 years ago, writes Rachel Cooke
December 2010
Nature writing roundup – review
Stephen Moss catches the best of the birds, bugs and butterflies
