Raynor Winn

Wilderness Tracks // Timber Festival

Raynor Winn, author of the international bestsellers The Salt Path and The Wild Silence, talks to Geoff about her six nature-related tracks.
Sharing the inspiration behind her 'Wilderness Tracks', Raynor takes us on a journey through her childhood, into an adulthood peppered with adventure, fulfilment, hardship, and the constant pull of the natural world.

Raynor Winn’s first book, The Salt Path, became an international bestseller and sold in twenty countries. It was shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Biography Award; shortlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018 and was the winner of the Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize 2018. The Wild Silence was shortlisted for the 2021 Indie Book Awards and the 2021 Wainwright Prize. The Salt Path has also been optioned for a film.

Raynor Winn is a regular long-distance walker and writes about nature, homelessness, and our relationship to the land. She lives in Cornwall with her husband Moth.