
Footprints in the Woods – The Secret Life of Forest and Riverbank, 2023.
Footprints in the Woods is John Lister-Kaye’s account of a year spent observing the comings and goings of otters, beavers, badgers, weasels and pine martens. This family – Mustelidae – all live in the wild at Aigas, the conservation and field study centre that has been John’s home for more that forty-five years.
The Dun Cow Rib, A Very Natural Childhood, 2017.
John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife. His memoir The Dun Cow Rib is the story of a boy’s awakening to the wonders of the natural world.


Gods of the Morning – A Bird’s Eye view of a Highland Year, 2015.
For more than three decades, John Lister-Kaye has been enraptured by the spectacular seasonal metamorphosis at Aigas, the world-renowned Highlands field centre.
At the Water’s Edge – A Walk in the Wild, 2010.
Drawing on this lifetime of close observation, At The Water’s Edge encourages us to look again at the nature around us, to discover its wildness for ourselves and to respect and protect it.


Nature’s Child – Encounters with Wonders of the Natural World, 2005
Nature’s Child is John Lister-Kaye’s account of bringing up his daughter to appreciate the nature around her so beloved to himself.
Song of the Rolling Earth – A Highland Odyssey, 2001
John Lister-Kaye, founder of the Aigas Field Centre, writes about his life in the glens, the wildlife that surrounds him and the primeval magical exchange that takes place between man and nature once so central to ancient civilisations.
