Robert Macfarlane is a British nature writer and literary critic.Įducated at Nottingham High School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is currently a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of English at Cambridge. His next books are There Will Be No Quiet and Bad Island. Stanley Donwood is an artist and the author of Slowly Downward and Household Worms. Robert Macfarlane is the author of The Lost Words with Jackie Morris, The Old Ways and Underland, among other books. Part-novella, part-prose-poem, part-mystery play, in Ness their skills combine to dazzling, troubling effect. What happens when land comes to life? What would it take for land to need to come to life? Using word and image, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood have together made a minor modern myth. And Ness has come to take this island back.
Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. Ness is made of tidal drift, green moss and deep time. You can do this on social media by using #TheLostWords and tagging PenguinUKBooks and readingagency.Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a black mass with terrible intent.įive more-than-human forms are traversing land, sea and time towards The Green Chapel, moving to the point where they will converge and become Ness.
We would love to hear feedback about how you use the pack. There are Creature Challenge leaflets to give out to children to help them find each of the creatures and tick them off as they go along. Each shows a different creature from the book and information about each creature that you can hide around the library or the children’s department or even just lay out on a table. Included in the pack are 8 Spotter’s Cards. Hamish Hamilton have created an activity pack to celebrate the first anniversary of this important book’s publication on Friday 5th October 2018. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane and hand-painted illustration by Jackie Morris, this enchanting book captures the irreplaceable magic of language and nature for all ages. It is a joyful celebration of nature words and the natural world they invoke. The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood.
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