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Amy Liptrot

Amy Liptrot grew up on a sheep farm in Orkney and her first book, The Outrun, a memoir, will be published by Canongate in January 2016

December 2023

  • Tipaza Roman ruins in Algeria, Africa<br>W5YF3M Tipaza Roman ruins in Algeria, Africa

    I took my toddler to Algeria – and we were welcomed warmly everywhere

    Our writer discovers ‘a young, exciting and proud nation’ – little known to western visitors – amid Roman ruins and remnants of war

July 2022

  • Harvested Field<br>Field of harvested bales and farm gate

    Rooted by Sarah Langford; Regenesis by George Monbiot reviews – how to fix farming

    Modern agriculture isn’t working. Two energising books come up with contrasting solutions

February 2022

  • Amy Liptrot photographed by trees

    I left the wilds of Orkney for a new life in Berlin. Could I find a lover – and a raccoon?

    In an extract from her new memoir, nature writer Amy Liptrot tries to cure her heartbreak with online dating and a hunt for the capital’s elusive creatures

April 2021

  • Lighthouse and foghorn at Sumburgh Head, Shetland.

    The Foghorn’s Lament by Jennifer Lucy Allan review – a whole world in a sound

    From Shetland to San Francisco ... in praise of the coast’s most monstrous and melancholy sound machines

August 2019

  • Rachel Edwards in Oxfordshire, in a tributary of the Thames.

    ‘I launch naked into the unknown’: writers on the joy of wild swimming

    From ice-cold rock pools to secluded riverbanks, six authors reveal the best spots in the UK to dive in and find inspiration

January 2019

  • Patrick Melrose is a witty, well-bred twentysomething who’s partial to pretty much every narcotic imaginable. When news of his father’s death breaks, who knows if it’s the heroin or their terrible relationship that causes him to react with such indifference. Patrick must dutifully collect his father’s remains from New York, where, he confidently declares, he will get clean. But getting sober in the Big Apple is less a piece of cake, more a rancid slice of cold turkey and he’s soon hitting the city’s seedier back streets to score a fix of anything and everything on offer.

    Further reading
    From Cinderella to Patrick Melrose: the best books about new beginnings

    Tales that show we can start afresh are what we need at this time of year – so Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun, shares her favourites

May 2018

  • Amy Liptrot

    My unforgettable summer
    ‘I pee in the undergrowth. I enjoy being an animal’: Amy Liptrot on her wild, pregnant summer

    The writer recalls the lonely early days of her pregnancy, where the natural world became the place she could let it all out

October 2017

  • Happy pregnant women meeting at antenatal class in the hospital<br>F99PPX Happy pregnant women meeting at antenatal class in the hospital

    Church halls and chipped mugs … antenatal classes aren’t that different from Alcoholics Anonymous

    Amy Liptrot
    Last time I was battling addiction and this time I’m growing a human, but the intimacy, inexperience, wisdom – and the level of gore – are pretty much the same

November 2016

  • A skiff on the coast of the isle of Lewis.

    Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey review – the edge of Europe

    Madeleine Bunting’s thrilling voyage through the islands considers their poetic appeal and place in national culture

January 2016

  • Amy Liptrot writer photographed on Orkney

    Amy Liptrot: ‘To the plane’s passengers I am a lone figure in waterproofs walking the coastline day after day’

  • Amy Liptrot writer photographed on Orkney for the Observer New Review.

    Amy Liptrot: ‘I swam in the cold ocean and dyed my hair a furious blue… I was moving upwards slowly’

May 2015

  • A goshawk in flight.

    How Berlin's urban goshawks helped me learn to love the city

    Berlin has the highest density of goshawk territories anywhere in the world. Since moving to the city, Amy Liptrot has delighted in the joys of watching these spectacular birds up close

March 2015

  • A woman covering her face with a question mark sign

    Neurotic, open, extrovert – are you a British regional stereotype?

    David Shariatmadari, Dawn Foster, Amy Liptrot and Bidisha
    With Britain’s personality types now charted on a map, our panel of writers from Lincolnshire, Newport, Orkney and London consider whether they match up to their birthplace
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