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The Lie of the Land

Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

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By: Guy Shrubsole
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WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025

A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024

'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER

'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES

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The lie of the land: that Britain’s landowners care for the countryside.

Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good stewards. But these same landowners have carelessly trampled over our best-loved landscapes, leaving the rivers polluted, fenlands drained, and moorlands burned.

Guy Shrubsole has travelled across Britain to expose the lie and meet the communities fighting back to restore our lost landscapes. This is a bold, shared vision for our nation’s wild places, and how we can treat them with the awe and care they deserve.

*Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-04-30*

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS*

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNWIN AWARD*

©2024 Guy Shrubsole (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers Ecosystems & Habitats Environment Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Politics & Government Rural Science Sociology
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Very interesting and well written book on a important topic and certainly worth a read. The issue is the author, Guy Shrubsole, reading the book. On the whole he reads it well however, his insistence on using ( very poor) accents when reading quotes are so bad and are borderline offensive. There’s is no need for them, they add nothing, are smugly performed and on some of the longer monologues incredible irritating (there where a few chapters that I nearly stopped listening all together because of them). Shame as it’s a bloody good book. Whoever produced/directed this audiobook needs a kick for not making Guy redo a chapter after his first generic Scottish accent came out.

Well written poorly performed

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Guy succinctly describes the environmental problems with the British countryside and the historical context and offers ways we can change the status quo. He does not mince his words or shy away from contentious issues.

If you care about the nature read this book

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Please can the current Environment Minister and the rest of Westminster read this book please!!! What a fantastic guide to how and what we need to do to recover the natural environment in the UK!

Fantastic education of English land

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What a fantastic summary of a lot that is wrong with England's current state of land ownership, nature and carbon offsetting.

If you only read one book this year

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Well researched, well written and well read. An incredibly insightful book that moves and inspires.

A must listen for all

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