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The best books to get now — and look forward to in Spring

Daffodils have started to appear and it feels as though we are finally emerging from what has been a particularly gloomy and chilly winter. We can’t promise you blue skies and cherry blossom from now on in, but below are the new titles currently giving us life, from a landmark…

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Nonfiction to look out for in 2025

From a river voyage with Robert Macfarlane to Helen Garner’s candid tale of a broken marriage, via Ian Leslie’s analysis of Lennon and McCartney’s complicated kinship, here are the titles you can’t afford to miss

The Guardian - UK

If a tree falls in a forest and no-one hears it, should it receive a royalty payment?

A forest in Ecuador could be credited as the co-author of a song

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Legal bid for Ecuador forest to be recognised as song co-creator

Petition to Ecuador’s copyright office is first legal attempt to recognise an ecosystem’s moral authorship

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Caroline Lucas: ‘Rory Stewart finds Westminster as dysfunctional as I do’

The MP and author on reading her political rival’s memoir, the wonders of Robert Macfarlane and the joy of Barbara Kingsolver

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Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground

The long read: The ocean’s depths are not some remote alien realm, but are in fact intimately entangled with every other part of the planet. We should treat them that way

The Guardian - UK

Arts Council England says funding will not be removed for ‘political’ artists

ACE had been under pressure to revise guidance in January which focused on ‘reputational risk’

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Arts Council England to update ‘activist statements’ guidance after backlash

Funding body says it believes in freedom of expression, after policy changes sparked fears of censorship of artists

The Guardian - UK

Arts Council England mired in row over ‘political statements’ warning

Robert Macfarlane, Feargal Sharkey and Matt Haig are among artists to react with fury to message about funding risks

The Guardian - UK

You Are Wolf: Hare // Hunter // Moth // Ghost review – bursting with spirit

With Sam Lee and Robert Macfarlane guesting, Kerry Andrew shows a knack for experimentation, deploying playground rhymes, birdsong and even their radiator

The Guardian - UK

Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane: The Moon Also Rises review – celebratory and thought-provoking

The musician-actor and the writer follow their inspiring lockdown debut with another buoyant fusion of English folk and big themes

The Guardian - UK

Authors join call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel

More than 150 writers and industry professionals are asking the firm, which is a leading sponsor of UK literary festivals, to drop their investments

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the felling of Britain’s famous Sycamore Gap tree

The Hadrian’s Wall landmark was symbolic of pride and resistance. Its loss should serve as a poignant reminder of the precarity of nature

The Guardian - UK

Sycamore Gap tree attack is part of war on nature in UK, says poet

Robert Macfarlane says tree’s felling was part of hostile culture and calls for forest to be planted in its honour

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Cormac McCarthy: a powerful writer who beautifully wrote about apocalypse and extinction

Endings, extinctions, last things preoccupied Cormac McCarthy from the start to the recent close of his 60-year career as a writer of fiction and, occasionally, drama for stage or screen. His first novel, The Orchard Keeper (1965), ends with the word “dust”. His final novel, Stella Maris (2022), allows only…

The Guardian - UK

Cormac McCarthy remembered: ‘His work will sing down the centuries’

The celebrated US author of Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men has died. Here, leading contemporaries and critics pay tribute to him

The Independent UK

Stephen King leads tributes to The Road author Cormac McCarthy: ‘The greatest American novelist of my time’

US author remembered for novels including ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’

The Independent UK

‘The greatest American novelist of my time’: Stephen King leads tributes to The Road author Cormac McCarthy

US author remembered for novels including ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’

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Writers join locals in protest against ‘neglect’ of medieval Cowpasture Lane

Robert Macfarlane among those protesting against Network Rail’s ‘inattention’ to Suffolk lane renowned for its beauty

The Guardian - UK

The Lost Spells review – enchanting musical has an abundance of magic

A cockney fox and a preening jackdaw open our eyes to the wonders of nature in this charming show based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s book

The Guardian - UK

‘Message to the not yet’: Olafur Eliasson plans sky mirror for Cumbria coast

Artist wins competition to create outdoor tide-trapping sculpture inspired by prehistoric carving but seeking vision of future

The Guardian - UK

Landmark decision on mega poultry farm could mean ‘life or death’ of River Wye

Welsh government considers whether to block plan after experts say manure from intensive units is turning Wye into ‘pea soup’

The Guardian - UK

Midwinter magic: Robert Macfarlane on the enduring power of The Dark Is Rising

Susan Cooper’s 1973 novel, newly adapted for a BBC audio series, has enthralled generations of children and writers with its folkloric tale of an English boy caught in a battle between light and dark

The Guardian - UK

Ronald Blythe at 100: ‘A watchful, curious and gratefully amazed vision of life’

A life rooted in Suffolk has given the great nature writer Ronald Blythe a deep love of the countryside

The Guardian - UK

Lake District slag heap could become landmark public art

Artist Roger Hiorns pitching alongside Rachel Whiteread, Piet Oudolf and Olafur Eliasson in scheme to celebrate Cumbrian coast

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