With her first book, A Sideways Look at Time, Jay Griffiths won the Discover award for the best new non-fiction writer to be published in the USA. Her second book (Wild: An Elemental Journey) was shortlisted for both the Orwell prize and for the World Book Day award and won the inaugural 2007 Orion Book Award in the USA. She has written for Radiohead in their newspaper the Universal Sigh, and Nikolai Fraiture from The Strokes has interviewed her about her work. Her words are quoted on the cover of KT Tunstall’s album Tiger Suit.

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