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British journalist and author

Richard Girling is a British journalist and author, known for his writing on the environment.

Life and career

Richard Girling, born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire in 1945, is a journalist for The Sunday Times. In 2002, he won the Specialist Writer category at the British Press Awards. He was awarded the Environmental Journalist of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 at Press Gazette's Environmental Journalism Awards.

Published works

Fiction

  • Ielfstan's Place : 15,000 BC-1919 AD (1981)
  • Sprigg's War (1984)

Non-Fiction

  • The Best of Sunday Times Travel (1988) (editor)
  • The View From The Top : A Panoramic Portrait of British Landscape (with Paul Barker) (1997)
  • Rubbish! Dirt On Our Hands and Crisis Ahead (2005)
  • Sea Change: Britain's Coastal Catastrophe (2007; paperback 2012)
  • Greed: Why We Can't Help Ourselves (2009)
  • The Hunt for the Golden Mole (2014)
  • The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, Forgotten Hero of Natural History (2016)
  • The Longest Story: How Humans Have Loved, Hated and Misunderstood Other Species (2021)

References

  1. McKie, Robin (22 June 2014). "The Hunt for the Golden Mole review – The Hunt for the Golden Mole review – Richard Girling's 'entertaining and provocative' quest". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  2. "born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire in 1945". richardgirling.com. 23 June 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  3. "British Press Awards winners". The Guardian. 20 March 2002. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  4. "Richard Girling is environmental journalist of the year – Press Gazette". Press Gazette. 27 November 2009. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  5. "Review: "Sprigg's War"". The Sunday Times. London. 18 November 1984.
  6. Silvester, Christopher (23 April 2009). "Greed: Why We Can't Help Ourselves by Richard Girling: review". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  7. Byrne, Paula (5 November 2016). "The Man Who Ate the Zoo by Richard Girling". The Times. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  8. Glover, Julian (23 June 2021). "The Longest Story by Richard Girling". Evening Standard. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
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