What’s On

Tickets £12 including a copy of the book (£16.99 RRP) available for free collection from The Grove Bookshop in Ilkley or posted to your address for £3.50. This book is…more

Join acclaimed nature writers Natasha Carthew and Tanya Shadrick as they discuss what it means to be a working-class nature writer in their respective fields of fiction and non-fiction. Together,…more

Professor Corinne Fowler, from the University of Leicester, explores the countryside’s repressed colonial past; demonstrates its importance as a source of ideas about Englishness and questions the countryside’s reputation as…more

In her latest book, How Beautiful We Were, New York Times bestseller Imbolo Mbue explores what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes…more

Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the…more

Artificial light is everywhere. Not only is it damaging to humans and to wildlife, disrupting our natural rhythms, but it obliterates the subtler lights that have guided us for millennia….more

Award-winning writer Helen Mort sets out to understand the singular relationship between dogs, mountains and the people who love them. Along the way, she meets search and rescue dogs, interviews…more

It’s often said that Britain is a nation of nature lovers; but what does that really mean? Lev Parikian explores the many, and particular, ways that he, and we, experience…more

In 2008, Ann Pettifor and a group of English economists developed the first Green New Deal, but it was ignored by policy-makers amidst the chaos of the financial crash. Over…more

Join Testament, Harriet Fraser and Dr Pippa Marland for a fascinating discussion, which will address some critical questions and conversations around the politics of landscape decisions, place, nature writing and…more