Awards

• Long-listed for Highland Book Prize 2022 (UK)
• Long-listed for Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2023 (UK)
• Short-listed for The Kavya Prize 2024 (UK)
• Short-listed for Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2023 (UK)

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Whether writing about nature, about family, about art, or about identity, Amanda Thomson brings a careful and a thoughtful attention to the page. She shows how the threads of a life - its passions and preoccupations - are intricately entangled, each illuminating and complicating the other -- MALACHY TALLACK Praise for A Scots Dictionary of Nature: So good -- ROBERT MACFARLANE A reminder of how easily the beauty of language and its connection with nature can be lost * * Herald * * A stunning wee book detailing some of the wonderfully inventive Scots words that document the world around us * * The List * * Full of words and expressions ripe for reappropriation. Deserves as wide a readership as possible * * Scotsman * * A delight to leaf through * * Herald * * Delightful . . . A celebration of Scotland's great outdoors, this is a lovely book * * Scottish Field * *

Praise for A Scots Dictionary of Nature: So good -- ROBERT MACFARLANE A reminder of how easily the beauty of language and its connection with nature can be lost * * Herald * * A stunning wee book detailing some of the wonderfully inventive Scots words that document the world around us * * The List * * Full of words and expressions ripe for reappropriation. Deserves as wide a readership as possible * * Scotsman * * A delight to leaf through * * Herald * * Delightful . . . A celebration of Scotland's great outdoors, this is a lovely book * * Scottish Field * *

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Amanda Thomson is a Scottish writer and visual artist, and a lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art. Her first book, A Scots Dictionary of Nature, was published in 2018. She has spoken at many book festivals and had her work published in Antlers of Water, Willowherb Review, The Wild Isles, Gifts of Gravity and Light and the Guardian. She lives and works in Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands and Glasgow. @passingplace | passingplace.com

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