Winner of the 2021 Nan Shepherd Prize, established to celebrate underrepresented voices in nature writing, Uprooting (Canongate Books) by Marchelle Farrell is a debut non-fiction ode to an English countryside garden. Farrell, a Trinidadian therapist, describes her move to the UK, to an idyllic town in which she was the only Black woman. Her ensuing quest to nurture her garden forms the basis of the book’s reflection: Farrell tends to greenery while deeply pondering her place in a xenophobic England.