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Cal Flyn is a Scottish non-fiction writer.[1]

Her first book, Thicker Than Water, concerns her great-great-uncle Angus McMillan, who emigrated from Scotland to Australia and was one of the perpetrators of the Gippsland massacres.[2][3] Her second book, Islands of Abandonment, is an exploration of places where nature is reclaiming the land once occupied by human activity, such as Canvey Wick in Essex, and Chernobyl.[4][5] It was short-listed for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation.,[6] and the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

She has written for publications including Granta[7] and The Guardian.[8][9]

In 2019 she was awarded a MacDowell fellowship, which she used to work on Islands of Abandonment.[10]

Flyn has an MA in experimental psychology (2005) from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and an NCTJ certificate in newspaper journalism from Lambeth College.[11][12]

Selected publications

• Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir (2016, William Collins: ISBN 978-0008126605)
• Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (2020, William Collins: ISBN 978-0008329761)

References

External links

• Official website
• "Surrendering Control, Review by: Profile Editorial Team". profilecritics.com. 24 June 2022.

"Interview with Cal Flyn, Profile magazine". profilecritics.com. 11 July 2022.

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