Norbury, Katherine Katharine Norbury: Katharine is an author and critic who originally trained as a film editor with the BBC. Her book The Fish Ladder, which combined travelogue, memoir and a celebration of the natural world, was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and was a Telegraph Best Book of the Year. Katharine is compiling Women on Nature, a wide-ranging and timely anthology of female voices writing about the natural world and our place in it.