Description: Taking inspiration from the landscapes around her, Tiffany Francis-Baker explores how our relationship with darkness and the night has changed over time.
Brief description:
Tiffany Francis-Baker is an award-winning writer, artist and environmentalist from the South Downs in Hampshire. With a mixed background in the arts, rural heritage and conservation, her work is fuelled by a love for the natural world and a passion for protecting it. She writes and illustrates for national publications and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and Channel 4. Her books include Food You Can Forage, the Concise Foraging Guide, Ebb and Flow and Dark Skies. In 2023, The British Horse Society presented Tiffany with the Elwyn Hartley-Edwards Award for her work in promoting the enjoyment of equestrianism and raising awareness of BHS campaigns and wider issues within the equine industry in The Bridleway.
www.tiffanyfrancisbaker.comReview Quotes:
"Tiffany Francis-Baker has gone into the last dark continent, the night, and brought back wondrous tales with starlight in her pen." --John Lewis-Stempel, Author of Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
"Tiffany Francis-Baker's eloquent and experiential narrative illuminates the shadow filled enclaves of our nocturnal world." --Joe Harkness, Author of Bird Therapy "Beautifully written...Francis-Baker combines memoir, history and some glorious landscape writing to provide a thoroughly absorbing evaluation of the role of darkness and night in our literature, culture and, most importantly, our environment." --Charlie Connolly, New European "Rich in literary references, Dark Skies is also rippled through with memoir...it's a warmly personal narrative." --Suzi Feay, Financial Times "A genuinely inspiring and poetic tale of a year spent exploring the natural world under dark and sometimes star-filled skies." --Peter Fiennes, Author of Oak and Ash and Thorn