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Melissa Harrison is a novelist, children's author, journalist and nature writer. She contributes a monthly Nature Notebook column to The Times, and also writes regularly for the FT Weekend, the Guardian and the New Statesman. Her most recent novel, All Among the Barley, was the UK winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. It was a Waterstones Paperback of the Year and a Book of the Year in the Observer, the New Statesman and the Irish Times. At Hawthorn Time was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, while Rain: Four Walks in English Weather was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. Melissa has appeared on BBC TV’s Newsnight, Springwatch and Springwatch Unsprung. She’s a regular guest on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, and has also appeared on the Today Programme, Start the Week, the Arts Show on Radio 2, the Arts Hour on the World Service, and on Monocle 24. She wrote and performed five episodes of the long-running Tweet of the Day slot on Radio 4, where her short story The Black Dog was also broadcast; she delivered a Proms interval talk on Radio 3, and wrote and performed an instalment of Radio 3’s The Essay, about Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, Wales. She lives in Suffolk.
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