Bookworm WOMEN ON NATURE

EDITED BY KATHARINE NORBURY (UNBOUND, £25)

Nature writing is still very much dominated by men. To balance out the voices, Katharine Norbury spent months ploughing through novels, gardening diaries and recipe books for examples from a female perspective. This wide-ranging anthology comprises some of the finest, including classic prose and poetry by anchorite Julian of Norwich and novelist Emily Brontë, and essays by contemporary writers such as Jessica J Lee and Jini Reddy.