Cairn

“…I was writing again but in a different way, making short pieces, micro-essays, pages, call them what you will. Like the local stone here, they fractured easily… eventually I found myself assembling them into this book. A cairn of sorts…a trail marker, a moment noted, a view from the strange here-and-now.” Kathleen Jamie

Out June 2024

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Kathleen Jamie Books
Cairn
Cairn

An assemblage of short-form prose by a pioneer of new nature writing. Pub June 2024

Surfacing
Surfacing

‘To read a Jamie essay is to be given a fresh lens through which to view the world.’ Amanda Bell, Irish Times

Findings
Findings

‘As close as writing gets to a conversation with the natural world’ Richard Mabey

Sightlines
Sightlines

A sorceress of the essay form’ John Berger

Among Muslims
Among Muslims

‘To share such a journey is an enriching experience’ Norman Lewis

“Kathleen Jamie is a supreme listener … in the quietness of her listening, you hear her own voice: clear, subtle, respectful, and so unquenchably curious that it makes the world anew. ”
— Richard Mabey

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SO YOU’VE REALLY GONE AND DONE IT THIS TIME you are lost in the wood how did that happen? The crazed Scots pines camped all around and blaeberries beneath and bracken shrivelled because it’s October and you stand hearing nothing, the non-sound of one leaf dropping to join its siblings on the ground…

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