Nick Hayes is a British writer, illustrator, and campaigner for land access. He has written a number of graphic novels and a non-fiction book, ''The Book of Trespass''.

Life and work

Hayes grew up in

Upper Basildon Upper Basildon is a small village in the civil parish of Basildon (where the United Kingdom 2011 Census population is included), near to Pangbourne, in the English county of Berkshire. It has a church, dedicated to St. Stephen, built in 1964 i ...

, Berkshire. He works as an illustrator. In 2004 he was a founding editor of ''Meat Magazine''. In August 2020, Hayes and Guy Shrubsole launched a campaign on

freedom to roam The freedom to roam, or "everyman's right", is the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land, lakes, and rivers for recreation and exercise. The right is sometimes called the right of public access to the wilderness ...

in England, called Right to Roam. In July 2021 he and Shrubsole collaborated with Landscapes of Freedom and

David Bangs David Bangs is a field naturalist, social historian, public artist, author and conservationist. He has written extensively on the countryside management, both historically and present day in the English county of Sussex. Biography Bangs wor ...

to organise a mass trespass on the

Sussex Downs The South Downs are a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the Eastbourne Downland Estate, East Sussex, in the eas ...

to raise awareness of the failings of the 2000 CROW act, which Shrubsole claims still only gives the public access to 8% of land and 3% of rivers in England.

Publications

Graphic novels

*''The Rime of the Modern Mariner''. Jonathan Cape, 2011. . *''Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads''. Harry N. Abrams, 2016. . *''Cormorance''. Jonathan Cape, 2016. . *''The Drunken Sailor''. Jonathan Cape, 2018. .

Non-fiction books

*''The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us''. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. .

References

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* English graphic novelists English illustrators 21st-century British writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from West Berkshire District {{UK-writer-stub