AN AWARD-winning nature writer will be speaking at Lydney Library later this month about her acclaimed book on wild boar.

Chantal Lyons, author of Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar, will be hosting a Q&A session on the evening of Thursday, April 24.

The book was shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Conservation and recently won the British Ecological Society’s Marsh Ecology Book of the Year award.

Ms Lyons said: “My book largely focuses on the story of the boar’s return to the Forest of Dean, so I’m really excited to be speaking at the library.”

The event will include a reading, insights into her research and writing process, and an opportunity for questions from the audience.