Madeleine Bunting is an award winning writer. Her next book will be published by Granta in 2016: Love of Country is an exploration on nation and belonging through a journey through Scotland’s North West.
Her last book, The Plot was a meditation on landscape and memory through the story of her father’s chapel in North Yorkshire. She was formerly a columnist and associate editor at the Guardian where she wrote about politics, social affairs, global development and faith. In 2013, she set up The Mindfulness Initiative as an advocacy project. She has a longstanding interest in contemplative practice. She is a regular broadcaster with a forthcoming series to be broadcast on Radio 3 this autumn on the Care Ethic.