Dispersals

HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASLE-UKI BOOK PRIZE 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2025 An invigorating cross-pollination of memoir and natural history, both beautifully phrased and delicately structured this book deserves your time and attention Cal Flyn, author of Islands of AbandonmentBorn in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion.In Dispersals, she examines the echoes and counterpoints in the migration of plants and people and the language we use to describe them. Combining memoir, history and scientific research, Lee questions how both plants and people come to belong or not and reveals how all our futures are more entwined than we might imagine. Contemplative, elegant New Statesman'At once expansive and intimate, and most of all, gorgeously written. This is a book I will return to often over the course of my life Nina Mingya Powles, author of Small Bodies of Water