Richard Girling
British journalist and author
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Richard Girling is a British journalist and author, known for his writing on the environment.[1]
Life and career
Richard Girling, born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire in 1945,[2] is a journalist for The Sunday Times. In 2002, he won the Specialist Writer category at the British Press Awards.[3] He was awarded the Environmental Journalist of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 at Press Gazette's Environmental Journalism Awards.[4]
Published works
Fiction
- Ielfstan's Place : 15,000 BC-1919 AD (1981)
- Sprigg's War (1984)[5]
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)[6]
- The Hunt for the Golden Mole (2014)
- The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, Forgotten Hero of Natural History (2016)[7]
- The Longest Story: How Humans Have Loved, Hated and Misunderstood Other Species (2021)[8]