It’s prize season

If you’re on the hunt for new reads as the nights draw in, check out the Wainwright Prize shortlist (wainwrightprize.com). Named after guidebook author Alfred Wainwright, there are 20 titles across three categories – nature writing (left), conservation and children’s – on topics from rock climbing to rare foods to sharks. Or get typing yourself and enter Mountaineering Scotland’s writing contest with an essay or poem about mountains. mountaineering.scot/ mountainwriting by 31 Oct.