Helen Czerski Awarded the Wainwright Prize for BLUE MACHINE

Congratulations to Helen Czerski's BLUE MACHINE on winning the Wainwright Prize's Conservation Category for 2024! 

 Helen Czerski, a physicist and oceanographer, explores the vital role of the ocean in sustaining life on the rest of the planet. BLUE MACHINE: How The Ocean Shapes Our World, was published by Penguin in October last year. 

Judging the conservation category was chair Joycelyn Longdon, an environmental justice researcher and founder of education platform Climate in Colour. In the book, "readers are immersed into the world of the ocean with spectacular detail, from the minuscule to the macroscopic, guided through the ocean's anatomy and introduced to the people who live in intimate relationships with it."

A £7,500 prize will be shared between the three winners, who were announced at a ceremony at Camley Street Natural Park, an urban nature reserve in London on the evening of September 11th, 2024.

Previous Wainwright prize winners include James Rebanks, Merlin Sheldrake, Robert Macfarlane and Amy Liptrot. In 2023, Amy-Jane Beer won the nature writing category with The Flow, while Guy Shrubsole won the conservation category for The Lost Rainforests of Britain.