Footprints in the Woods: The Secret Life of Forest and Riverbank - Sir John Lister-Kaye (Paperback) 04-07-2024 Short-listed for Richard Jefferies Society Writers' Prize 2023 (UK). Long-listed for Highland Book Prize 2023 (UK).

LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023 Footprints in the Woods is John Lister-Kaye's charming account of a year spent with otters, badgers, weasels and pine martens. This family - Mustelidae - all live in the wild at Aigas, the conservation and field study centre in the Highlands that he calls home. With fifty years of experience living side-by-side with these creatures and the patience of a true naturalist, John reveals the lives of these elusive animals: sometimes red in tooth and claw, but often playful, familial, curious and surprising.