Publications
Karen Lloyd is the author of a number of acclaimed works of nature writing and environmental non-fiction, exploring the complex relationships between people, place and the natural world. Her books range from personal essays to collaborative anthologies, reflecting a longstanding engagement with landscape, ecology and the more-than-human.
Books are available through all good bookshops and online retailers.
Signed and/or dedicated copies of Abundance: Nature in Recovery can be purchased directly for £10, plus £3.50 postage and packaging.
Anthology of Speculative Nature, an anthology exploring contemporary nature writing, is available from Guillemot Press.
Copies of Self Portrait as Ornithologist are available on request — please get in touch via the contact form if you would like to purchase one.
Following renewed interest, Curlew Calling has recently been reissued.
The Wolf in Culture, Nature and Heritage, a collection examining the cultural and ecological significance of the wolf, is available directly from the publisher here.
For general enquiries or time-sensitive purchase requests, please get in touch via the contact page.
Earthworks: Land and Nature in Uncertain Times
Published by Saraband | 2026
From the rainforests of Costa Rica to the Balkans and Scotland, Karen Lloyd explores the hidden life of habitats and species including sloths, the rockpool shrimp and the world’s only...
£12.99
The Gathering Tide: A Journey Around the Edgelands of...
Published by Saraband | 2016
Over 2 years I walked the shoreline, researched in archives, poured over ancient sea charts, explored hidden caves and travelled out into the middle of the bay...
£12.99
North Country: An anthology of landscape and nature
Published by Saraband | 2022
Published by Saraband (November 2022) and edited by Karen Lloyd, North Country is a celebration of Northern culture and literature featuring a diverse set of voices from...
£14.00
Abundance: Nature in Recovery
Published by Saraband | 2021
Journeying from the Lake District and Scotland to the Carpathian mountains, the Prespa Lakes in Northern Greece and the Hungarian Steppe, Karen Lloyd goes in search of the places where people are restoring species...
£13.00
The Blackbird Diaries: A Year with Wildlife
Published by Saraband | 2018
With its enchanting song, striking orange bill and endearing willingness to share our living space, the blackbird is one of our best-loved birds. And, in common with all our garden wildlife, it plays a critical role in Britain’s fragile...
£10.00
Curlew Calling: An Anthology of Poetry, Nature Writing...
Published by Saraband | 2016
Curlew Calling: An Anthology of Poetry, Nature Writing and Images in Celebration of Curlew, edited and published by Karen Lloyd, has been reissued with an updated introduction and some new material.
£15.00
Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis
Published by Saraband | 2025
A new essay titled 'Viewing Stations in the English Lake District' was commissioned for this major new publication on art and climate change, Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of our Climate Crisis.
£20.00
The Wolf: Culture, Nature, Heritage
Published by Saraband | 2023
Few animals arouse such strong opinion as the wolf. It occupies a contested, ambiguous, yet central role in human culture and heritage. It appears as both an inspirational emblem of the wild and an...
£130.00
Speculative Nature Writing: An Anthology
Published by Guillemot Press | 2023
Edited by Jos Smith and Hetty Saunders of UEA School of Creative Writing, including Karen Lloyd's essay 'Inside the Rockpool Shrimp there is a Dying Star,' about the microplastics inside tiny marine invertebrates in...
£16.00
Self Portrait as Ornithologist
Published by Wayleave Press | 2023
Karen Lloyd celebrates the natural world through a human lens. Creatures, particularly birds, are brought to life by her descriptive powers. She takes obvious pleasure at sharing the world with them, while at the same time being aware of the...
£7.50
“Lloyd’s writing is realistic, unsentimental, and refuses any romanticisation but... evinces a deep love of, and respect for the environment in all its complexities.”
—Charlie Gere