Winners have been chosen for the 2025 Wainwright Prize, celebrating nature, conservation, and environmental writing. This year, in addition to the individual category winners, two books have been chosen as the overall winners: Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton for the 2025 Wainwright Prize Book of the Year, and Flower Block by Lanisha Butterfield, illustrated by Hoang Giang, for the Wainwright Children's Prize Book of the Year. The 2025 Wainwright Prize category winners are:
Nature Writing: Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
Conservation Writing: The Lie of the Land by Guy Shrubsole
Illustrative Books: Feed the Planet by George Steinmetz with Joel K. Bourne Jr. & Michael Pollan
Children's Fiction: Wildlands by Brogen Murphy
Children's Nonfiction: University of Cambridge: Think Big: Secrets of Bees by Ben Hoare, illustrated by Nina Chakrabarti
Children's Picture Books: Flower Block by Lanisha Butterfield, illustrated by Hoang Giang
The two overall winning books received a prize of £2,500 (about $3,400), with the picture book award jointly shared by its author and illustrator. Category winners were each awarded £500 (about $680) per book.