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The Book of Birds takes Wainwright’s top prize
Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane’s The Book of Birds has won the 2026 Wainwright Prize Book of the Year.
The awards were announced on 17 September at Elmley Nature Reserve. Thomas Halliday and illustrator Gavin Scott received the children’s Book of the Year prize for Otherlands. No book text or illustrations are reproduced.
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