The Wainwright Prize for Illustrative Books

Shortlist 2025

Homecoming

By Melissa Harrison and Amanda Dilworth

A monthly guide to the changing seasons and nature journal from award-winning novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison. A year-long course in noticing, the journal can be started in any month, making it the perfect gift that allows you to follow the stories unfolding around you.

About Melissa Harrison and Amanda Dilworth

Melissa Harrison is a novelist and nature writer. She contributes a monthly Nature Notebook column to The Times and writes for the FT Weekend, the Guardian and the New Statesman. Her most recent novel, All Among the Barley, was the UK winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. It was a Waterstones Paperback of the Year and a Book of the Year in the Observer, the New Statesman and the Irish Times. Her previous books have been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (At Hawthorn Time) and the Wainwright Prize (Rain).

Photo credit: Richard Allenby-Pratt

Amanda Dilworth is a watercolour artist, illustrator and pattern designer based in Derbyshire.

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