Competition Time! Win a copy of Laurent Tillon’s Being an Oak : Life as Tree

We have three copies Laurent Tillon’s book, Being an Oak: Life as a Tree, to give away to three lucky people!

In this dazzling book, biodiversity expert Tillon narrates the story of the tree he calls Quercus. From germination in 1780 to adapting to the changing climate of the modern age, Quercus’ struggles and triumphs took place far from human eyes. That is, until one day a young man named Laurent Tillon came across it, and a decades-long relationship began. Evoking the richness which is all around us, he reveals that Quercus is embedded in a network of ever-shifting relationships, from close alliances between plants and animals to battles between insects, birds and fungi. A book of ecology unlike any other, Being An Oak offers a tree-eyed view of life on earth.

Competition open to UK residents only. To enter, tell us what oak seeds are commonly known as.

Competition closes at midnight on Sunday 7 December.

About the Author: Laurent Tillon is head of biodiversity at France’s National Forestry Office, in charge of drawing up inventories of forest fauna, especially mammals and batrachians. He is the author of Listening to Nature (Payot, 2018),  the bestselling Being An Oak (Actes Sud, 2021), and Night Phantoms: Bats and  humans (Actes Sud, 2023). He lives in the heart of Rambouillet Forest.