The Lie of the Land: How a Tiny Group of Landowners Wrecked the Countryside, and How the Public Can Restore It

∗SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS AND THE UNWIN AWARD∗∗LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE∗∗A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024∗'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES-

The lie of the land: that Britain's landowners care for the countryside.Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good stewards. But these same landowners have carelessly trampled over our best-loved landscapes, leaving the rivers polluted, fenlands drained, and moorlands burned.Guy Shrubsole has travelled across Britain to expose the lie and meet the communities fighting back to restore our lost landscapes. This is a bold, shared vision for our nation's wild places, and how we can treat them with the awe and care they deserve.∗Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-04-30∗

About the author

Guy Shrubsole is a writer and environmental campaigner. He has worked for Rewilding Britain, Friends of the Earth, the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and New Zealand's Ministry of Agriculture. He has written widely for publications including the Guardian and New Statesman. His first book, Who Owns England?, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.