Madeleine Bunting

Madeleine Bunting is the award-winning author of six nonfiction books and two novels. She worked as a journalist for 25 years, as Associate Editor at The Guardian 1999-2012 and was made a Visiting Professor at the LSE's International Inequalities Institute in 2021. She has received a number of awards and prizes including an honorary fellowship from Cardiff University in 2013, a visiting fellowship at Manchester University (2016-19). Love of Country was shortlisted for the Wainwright and the Saltire Prizes 2017, and she won the Portico Prize for The Plot in 2010 which was also shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. Her first novel, Island Song, won the Waverton Good Read Award in 2020. She has won several One World Media awards for her journalism on global justice. Madeleine’s latest book is The Seaside, England's Love Affair and will be published by Granta on May 4th 2023.

'There is no one quite like Bunting in her combination of delicate, touching observation and memoir, and penetrating, clear-sighted analysis, here brought to bear on Britain's coastline, adored, romanticised – and so often politically abandoned.” Charlotte Higgins