Mark Cocker (born 1959) is a British author and naturalist. He lives with his wife, Mary Muir, and two daughters in Claxton, Norfolk. The countryside around Claxton is a theme for two of his twelve books.
Cocker has written extensively for British newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent and BBC Wildlife. He has written a regular ‘Country Diary’ column in the Guardian since 1988 and a wildlife column in the international subscribers’ edition, the Guardian Weekly from 1996 to 2002. He reviews regularly for the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.
Books in order of publication:
A Himalayan Ornithologist: The Life and Work of Brian Houghton Hodgson. Oxford University Press. – 1988
Richard Meinertzhagen Soldier, Scientist and Spy. Secker and Warburg. 1989.
Loneliness and Time; British Travel Writing in the Twentieth Century. Secker and Warburg. 1992.
published as Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel Writing. New York: Pantheon. 1993.
Rivers of Blood, River’s of Gold: Europe’s Conflict with Tribal People. Jonathan Cape. 1998.
Birders: Tales of a Tribe. Jonathan Cape. 2001.
Birds Britannica. Chatto and Windus – 2005
A Tiger in the Sand: Selected Writings on Nature. Jonathan Cape. 2006.
Crow Country. Jonathan Cape. 2007.
Birds and People. 2013.
Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet Paperback. 2015.
Our Place: Can We Save Britain’s Wildlife Before It Is Too Late?. 2018.
A Claxton Diary: Further Field Notes from a Small Planet. 2019
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