Aug 8-15
Lumb Bank
Residential Arvon Plus: Non-Fiction
Narrative Non-Fiction: Experiments in Place, Memoir and Form
Amy Liptrot
Rob Cowen
Guest: Adam Farrer
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Rob Cowen
Rob Cowen is an award-winning writer and author, hailed as one of the UK’s most original voices on nature, place and people. His first book, Skimming Stones, won the Roger Deakin Award from the Society of Authors. His second book, Common Ground (PRH; 2015), was shortlisted for the Portico, Richard Jefferies Society and Wainwright Prizes and voted one of the nation’s favourite nature books of all time in a BBC poll. His follow-up, The Heeding (E&T; 2021), was the best-selling debut book of poetry in 2021. His new book The North Road (PRH; April 2025) has been described as an ‘absolute masterpiece’ and a ‘dazzlingly inventive work of literature’ and debuted as Book of the Week in the Observer, Financial Times, Telegraph and New Statesman. Rob lives in North Yorkshire.