Books by John Hay

Bob Dylan’s songs have been the subject of countless interpretations. In fact, Dylan’s work is one of the fastest-growing research areas within the humanities, and the interest has increased dramatically since Dylan’s receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.There is a distinguished history of scholarly work on Dylan. Textual scholars focus on Dylan’s lyrics, parsing out their verbal artistry and identifying their numerous and farflung sources.Historians and biographers try to clarify the details of Dylan’s life and the chronologies that link him with other notable figures and movements. Social scientists have focused on the cultures inspired by Dylan, the institutions and communities of fandom and appreciation which surround him.NEW APPROACHES TO BOB DYLAN break down the disciplinary silos that have kept these lines of work separate, to think about how lyrics, performances, personal history, and mass movements all coincide and shape one another. NEW APPROACHES TO BOB DYLAN is edited by Anne-Marie Mai and contains 16 essays and an interview with Horace Engdahl, The Swedish Academy. Among the contributors are Stephen Greenblatt, Sean Latham, Nina Goss, Johnathan Hodgers, Michael Gray and Gisle Selnes.

Inspired by an amazing true story, this is a heart-warming tale about a little owl found in a family's Christmas tree.

A hilarious Christmas story, Fly, Fly, Fly Your Sleigh is full of funny rhymes, inspired by the much-loved song Row, Row, Row Your Boat. From John Hay and Garry Parsons, illustrator of the bestselling Dinosaur That Pooped series.Perfect for sharing at Christmas, young children will love joining in and singing along. They can even make up their own funny Christmas rhymes! It's Christmas Eve, and in Santa's workshop all is not well. The elves are hard at work but oh no! - this year Santa's feeling fed up and he doesn't want to deliver the presents. The elves are determined to cheer Santa up with some jolly songs. Starting with Row, Row, Row Your Boat... and moving on to classics such as Hang, Hang, Hang Your Socks... and Peel, Peel, Peel the Sprouts... But can they get Santa smiling again and onto his sleigh in time?

A laugh-out-loud funny story, perfect for fans of Kes Gray's You're Called What?! Featuring a whole range of unbelievably silly real place names - from Little Snoring to Scratchy Bottom!

"Joy Hay is one of our very best essayists on the natural world, and The Bird of Light is a fine example of his work."-Peter Matthiessen

Through the distillation of a lifetime of experiences, John Hay describes in The Undiscovered Country his quiet, profound search for our place in the natural world. In considering snails, alewives, terns, woodland moths, and other forms of natural life, Hay shares with his readers a discovery that few have experienced and no one has written about so eloquently. The sensitivity and poetic beauty of John Hay's writing will come as no surprise to the readers of The Run, The Great Beach (winner of the John Burroughs award), and the other books for which he is recognized as one of our finest naturalist writers.

Focusing on nature as inseparable from the deepest human experience, this book argues that scientific advances cannot substitute for the life of nature.