Five years after Findings broke the mould of nature writing, Sort of Books presents Sightlines - Now a Radio 4 Book of the Week, starting on 23rd April
Multi-award winning poet Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. She has written two works of non-fiction: Among Muslims, an acclaimed travel narrative, and Findings, the ground-breaking nature/travel book set in Scotland. She lives in Fife and is a Professor of Creative Writing at Stirling University.
Praise for Findings:
'Kathleen Jamie writes with unparalleled beauty, sharpness of
observation, wit, delicacy, strength of vision and rare exactness
of language.'
*Daily Telegraph*
It finds without disturbing the found. And this takes courage and
delicacy
*Guardian Books of the Year*
Her acheivement is to make us look again with completeluy fresh
eyes at those creatures and places we had long presumed to know
*Mark Cocker*
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