Many congratulations to Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane, who have won the 2026 Wainwright Prize Book of the Year for The Book of Birds (Hamish Hamilton)!

The annual prizes celebrate the best of our nature and environmental writing. Both authors received a prize of £2,500.

The Book of Birds was also won in the Illustrative Books category. The judges praised their book as an “utterly beautiful book to treasure”.