The Savage Landscape – Cal Flyn

Thu 22 October, 2026 at 7:00 pm

A lyrical exploration of the world’s most forbiddingly remote places and the humans who have always been there, The Savage Landscape takes us into the wild – deep into forests, the top of mountains and the heart of deserts. The locations were chosen for their physical beauty, their perceived isolation and the complexity of the human stories that can be found there. It is a profound and beautiful book about spirituality, environmentalism and the sublime by one of the most gifted writers at work today. This illustrated in-conversation event will bring new light to your understanding of our place in the world, and how we relate to the other residents of this planet – human and animal.

‘Fascinating and masterfully written‘ Alice Winn

Cal Flyn is an award-winning writer from the Highlands of Scotland. She writes long form journalism and literary nonfiction. Her latest book, Islands of Abandonment, has been a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for numerous awards including the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction. It won her the title of Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 2022 and the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.