Isabella Tree lives with her husband, Charlie Burrell, in the middle of a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex.

She is author of six adult non-fiction books, including the Sunday Times bestseller Wilding in 2018. The film of the book was the top documentary in UK cinemas in 2024.

The Book of Wilding - a practical guide to rewilding big and small, co-authored with Charlie, described as a ‘handbook of hope’, was a Sunday Times bestseller in 2023.

A children’s version of Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back, illustrated by Angela Harding, won Best Children’s Non-fiction in the British National Book Awards 2025.

The Return of the White Stork will be published by Bloomsbury in Spring 2027.

WILDING

BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK BY ISABELLA TREE

Wilding tells the story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. The young couple battles entrenched tradition, and dares to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. Ripping down the fences, they set the land back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild. It is the beginning of a grand experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe.