William Fiennes FRSL is the author of The Snow Geese and The Music Room. He was Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and the recipient of a Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden Prize. He has contributed reviews, essays and stories to the London Review of Books, Granta, the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement. He lives in London.

Why are we drawn to birds, to landscape, to nature? It is for the sense of wonder - and in capturing that sense of wonder, Fiennes reminds us how desperately we all need it

William Fiennes FRSL is the author of The Snow Geese and The Music Room. He was Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and the recipient of a Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden Prize. He has contributed reviews, essays and stories to the London Review of Books, Granta, the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement. He lives in London.

Why are we drawn to birds, to landscape, to nature? It is for the sense of wonder - and in capturing that sense of wonder, Fiennes reminds us how desperately we all need it

William Fiennes FRSL is the author of The Snow Geese and The Music Room. He was Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and the recipient of a Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden Prize. He has contributed reviews, essays and stories to the London Review of Books, Granta, the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement. He lives in London.

Why are we drawn to birds, to landscape, to nature? It is for the sense of wonder - and in capturing that sense of wonder, Fiennes reminds us how desperately we all need it