Nick Hayes is an author, illustrator and printmaker. He has published four graphic novels with Jonathan Cape and has worked for, among others, the Literary Review, Time Out, the British Council, the New Statesman and the Guardian. His first non-fiction book, The Book of Trespass, was a Sunday Times Bestseller. He has exhibited across the country, including at the Hayward Gallery. He lives in on a canal boat with no fixed address.
An urgent reminder of how little of England’s landscapes and waterways are free to roam and a valuable guide to what we can do to help change this situation. Access rights are needed now. The Trespasser’s Companion is a delightful frame to support the struggle for land reform. Let us wander in the natural places of this country of ours. We will be all the better for it. * Dr James Canton, author of The Oak Papers * The Trespasser's Companion is many things at once: it is a how-to guide; a spell book; a call to arms. Most urgently, though, it is a reimagining of how we might live, showing how we can share more equally in all that our land has to offer while caring for that land more ardently * Kerri Andrews, author of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking * The countryside ought to be for everyone, and this beautiful, thoughtful companion can help us all start to forge paths into the forgotten corners of our green, pleasant and often inaccessible land. * Catrina Davies, author of Homesick * PRAISE FOR THE BOOK OF TRESPASS ‘Brilliant, passionate and political . . . The Book of Trespass will make you see landscapes differently' * Robert Macfarlane * 'A remarkable and truly radical work, loaded with resonant truths' * George Monbiot *