About the event

Bury Literature Festival x Festival of Nature 

The ocean covers more than two-thirds of our planet, teems with life beyond imagining, and is changing faster than almost any other ecosystem on Earth. Marine biologist and writer Helen Scales has spent her career diving into its depths - literally and figuratively - and in What the Wild Sea Can Be, she asks one of the most urgent questions of our age: what might the seas become if we protect them?

In conversation with author and scientist Andrzej Szewczak, Helen combines deep scientific knowledge with beautiful, urgent prose to make the case for the ocean's future. An essential event for anyone who has ever stood at the sea's edge and wondered at what lies beneath.

Themes: Non-Fiction, Adults, Climate Focus

Access: Hearing Loop

Suffolk Wildlife Trust Members and Bury Literature Festival Newsletter Subscribers early booking open from 1st June 2026. 

General sale 1st July 2026.