Mark Cocker

Mark Cocker is an author, naturalist and environmental teacher who writes and broadcasts on nature and wildlife in a variety of national media. His books include works of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir. His book Crow Country was shortlisted for several awards, including the Samuel Johnson Prize (2008), and won the New Angle Prize for Literature (2009). For 35 years his home has been in Norfolk, where much of his free time is devoted to the restoration of a small wooded fen called Blackwater and all its thousands of wild inhabitants.

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