'A book about what itmeans to be fully alive in a time of endings: personal, planetary. Deeplymoving and rich in surprising perspectives on wild places and our relationshipto them.' - Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for Sleep ' Two Lights operatesat an epic scale, switching back and forth between the realms of the microscopeand the telescope. An opening sequence which describes the stupendous enormityof a new day dawning across Eurasia verges on science fiction, and yet thesemassive themes are anchored by continual references to the tiny; the goldenplover at the heart of a turning galaxy. So instead of spinning recklessly offinto the distant cosmos, Two Lights is rooted in tangibles -simultaneously radical and earthy; superlative and sensible.' - PatrickLaurie, author of Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape 'A beautifully written, ultimately hopeful, journeythrough all that we stand to lose on this ever-more-challenged Earth.' - SharonBlackie, author and a Society of Author ' s Roger Deakin Award winner 'Deeply personal yet always outward looking, James Robertsdelights in the world he discovers about him.Yet he also trembles, because heunderstands like winter light, that worldisdiminished .

and diminishing . Two Lights reveals why all of us should be writers.' - Robert Minhinnick , poet and author of Diary of the Last Man.