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 Sunday Telegraph The Snow Geese moved me as have few other recent books. No one who reads it is likely to continue to look at the world in the same way Times Literary Supplement A beautifully solitary and beautifully reflective book Evening Standard The descriptions of the geese and their environment are jaw-droppingly beautiful. But Fiennes' most remarkable talent is for describing the quotidian with such freshness that it is like seeing the world for the first time Mail on Sunday An inspired work of natural history and travel. A classic Irish Independent His sharp eye and his inventive similes take us everywhere with him ... an unmistakably gifted writer The Times

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 Sunday Telegraph The Snow Geese moved me as have few other recent books. No one who reads it is likely to continue to look at the world in the same way Times Literary Supplement A beautifully solitary and beautifully reflective book Evening Standard The descriptions of the geese and their environment are jaw-droppingly beautiful. But Fiennes' most remarkable talent is for describing the quotidian with such freshness that it is like seeing the world for the first time Mail on Sunday An inspired work of natural history and travel. A classic Irish Independent His sharp eye and his inventive similes take us everywhere with him ... an unmistakably gifted writer The Times

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 Sunday Telegraph The Snow Geese moved me as have few other recent books. No one who reads it is likely to continue to look at the world in the same way Times Literary Supplement A beautifully solitary and beautifully reflective book Evening Standard The descriptions of the geese and their environment are jaw-droppingly beautiful. But Fiennes' most remarkable talent is for describing the quotidian with such freshness that it is like seeing the world for the first time Mail on Sunday An inspired work of natural history and travel. A classic Irish Independent His sharp eye and his inventive similes take us everywhere with him ... an unmistakably gifted writer The Times