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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 38 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Observant Walker: Wild Food, Nature and Hidden Treasures on the Pathways of Britain by John Wright
    The Observant Walker: Wild Food, Nature and Hidden Treasures on the Pathways of Britain - by John Wright

    £12.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781788166881 | ISBN 10: 1788166884

    A personal guide to the food, nature and history to be found all around us when we walk.  'Blissfully funny, staggeringly informative, a joyful companion' Caroline Quentin  'Tells the endlessly fascinating tale of Britain's natural hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wolfish: The Stories We Tell About Fear, Ferocity and Freedom by Erica Berry
    Wolfish: The Stories We Tell About Fear, Ferocity and Freedom - by Erica Berry

    £10.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781838854638 | ISBN 10: 1838854630

    An original and probing debut work of non-fiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-long quest to study the cultural legacy of the wolf.  A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 FOR FINANCIAL TIMES, TIME, VULTURE, LIT HUB, GOODREADS, RUM ... more

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  • Cover image of book Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing by Lev Parikian
    Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing - by Lev Parikian

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783967032 | ISBN 10: 178396703x

    *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023*   ‘This book soars… Parikian is a nature writer at the top of his game.’ Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.   This is the miracle of flight as you’ve ... more

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  • Cover image of book Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain by Sophie Pavelle
    Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain - by Sophie Pavelle

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472986238 | ISBN 10: 1472986237

    WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION AND LONGLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATION.   'Enchanting… a joy to read.' JOANNA LUMLEY 'Vibrant and vital.' CHRIS PACKHAM 'Forget Me Not is a tonic. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
    Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence - by James Bridle

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780141994260 | ISBN 10: 0141994266

    'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times   'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno   'Be prepared to re-evaluate your relationship with the amazin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole
    The Lost Rainforests of Britain - by Guy Shrubsole

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008527990 | ISBN 10: 0008527997

    WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023  The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year  As seen on Countryfile  ‘If anyone was born to save Britain’s rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole’ Sunday Times  Shor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Goshawk Summer: The Diary of an Extraordinary Season in the Forest by James Aldred
    Goshawk Summer: The Diary of an Extraordinary Season in the Forest - by James Aldred

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783967414 | ISBN 10: 1783967412

    WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2022  James Aldred’s prize-winning lockdown diary of his summer in the New Forest, featuring a stunning new linocut cover by illustrator Nick Hayes.   ’A beautiful inspirational t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell (Editor)
    Nature Tales for Winter Nights - by Nancy Campbell (Editor)

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783967421 | ISBN 10: 1783967420

    From the author of Fifty Words for Snow comes a treasure trove of nature tales from storytellers across the globe, bringing a little magic and wonder to every winter night.  As the evenings draw in – a time of reckoning, rest and restoratio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cry of the Wild: Eight Animals Under Siege by Charles Foster
    Cry of the Wild: Eight Animals Under Siege - by Charles Foster

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780857529381 | ISBN 10: 0857529382

    'Evocative and beautifully written, it's a deeply immersive read' Observer   'Charles Foster is the most original voice in nature writing today - funny, urgent, poetic, philosophical and deeply moving' Patrick Barkham   'Utterly exhilar ... more

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  • Cover image of book Earth Spirit: Honoring the Wild: Reclaiming Witchcraft and Environmental Activism by Irisanya Moon
    Earth Spirit: Honoring the Wild: Reclaiming Witchcraft and Environmental Activism - by Irisanya Moon

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781789049619 | ISBN 10: 178904961x

    Deeply rooted in environmentalism and activism, Honoring the Wild answers crucially pertinent questions while driving at lasting change.   From political demonstrations to personal calls, Irisanya Moon offers a collection of stories and lesso ... more

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  • Cover image of book Much Ado About Mothing: A Year Intoxicated by Britain
    Much Ado About Mothing: A Year Intoxicated by Britain's Rare and Remarkable Moths - by James Lowen

    £11.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472966988 | ISBN 10: 1472966988

    James Lowen narrates a year-long quest to see Britain's rarest and more remarkable moths. Although mostly unseen by us, moths are everywhere. And their capacity to delight astounds.  Inspired by a revelatory encounter with a Poplar Hawk-moth - a ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
    An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us - by Ed Yong

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529112115 | ISBN 10: 1529112117

    **SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**  This is our world, as you've never seen it before.  The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wild Green Wonders: A Life in Nature by Patrick Barkham
    Wild Green Wonders: A Life in Nature - by Patrick Barkham

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783352494 | ISBN 10: 1783352493

    LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE  The collected writings from one of the nation’s most celebrated nature writers.  ‘Barkham is an outstanding author.’ CHRIS PACKHAM   ‘Wonder-filled... A treat. Patrick knows how to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal by Lucy Cooke
    Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal - by Lucy Cooke

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804990919 | ISBN 10: 1804990914

    "A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tapestries of Life: Uncovering the Lifesaving Secrets of the Natural World by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
    Tapestries of Life: Uncovering the Lifesaving Secrets of the Natural World - by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008402754 | ISBN 10: 0008402752

    The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects.   Trees clean air and water; hoverflies and bees pollinate our crops; the kingfisher inspired the construction of high-speed trains. In Tapestries of Life, bestselling author ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary by Emma Mitchell
    The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary - by Emma Mitchell

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781789292909 | ISBN 10: 1789292905

    HE SUNDAY TIMES BESTESELLER  Emma Mitchell's richly illustrated and evocative diary – as seen on the BBC's Springwatch – records her nature finds over the course of a year and shows how being in the wild benefits our mental and physical wellb ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Nature of Summer by Jim Crumley
    The Nature of Summer - by Jim Crumley

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913393113 | ISBN 10: 1913393119

    In the endless light of summer days, and the magical gloaming of the wee small hours, nature in Jim's beloved Highlands, Perthshire and Trossachs heartlands is burgeoning freely, as though there is one long midsummer's eve, nothing reserved. For our ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Scurry of Squirrels: Nurturing The Wild by Polly Pullar
    A Scurry of Squirrels: Nurturing The Wild - by Polly Pullar

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781780277042 | ISBN 10: 1780277040

    Polly Pullar has had a passion for red squirrels since childhood. As a wildlife rehabilitator, she knows the squirrel on a profoundly personal level and has hand-reared numerous litters of orphan kits, eventually returning them to the wild. In this b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
    Diary of a Young Naturalist - by Dara McAnulty

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529109603 | ISBN 10: 1529109604

    Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries about his c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World
    Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World's Wild Places - by Jeremy Purseglove

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788161602 | ISBN 10: 1788161602

    From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin.   Working with Nature is the story of a life ... more

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  • Cover image of book Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
    Underland: A Deep Time Journey - by Robert Macfarlane

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141030579 | ISBN 10: 0141030577

    The highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways.   In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ground Work: Writings on People and Places by Tim Dee (Editor)
    Ground Work: Writings on People and Places - by Tim Dee (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784703462 | ISBN 10: 178470346x

    The essential and defining new collection of the best British nature writing.  ‘Tim Dee has brought together a wonderous array of talent for this life-affirming, often magical anthology’ Observer   We are living in the anthropocene – an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
    The Outrun - by Amy Liptrot

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786894229 | ISBN 10: 178689422x

    WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016   SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME PRIZE 2016   When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Approaching the land that was ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red Squirrel Book by Jane Russ
    The Red Squirrel Book - by Jane Russ

    £9.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912654178 | ISBN 10: 1912654172

    A must-have for all British nature lovers, The Red Squirrel Book is a stunning compendium of fact and photography.   This compact and accessible guide introduces the reader to these instantly recognisable fixtures of British wildlife and documents ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Prickly Affair: The Charm of the Hedgehog by Hugh Warwick
    A Prickly Affair: The Charm of the Hedgehog - by Hugh Warwick

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141988184 | ISBN 10: 0141988185

    Discover the many wonders of the hedgehog: a funny, charming creature of the countryside.   Carrying its secrets beneath patterned spinesand roaming our fields, parks and gardens, why is it that the hedgehog fascinates so many of us? In A Prick ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Way of the Hare by Marianne Taylor
    The Way of the Hare - by Marianne Taylor

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472942265 | ISBN 10: 1472942264

    "Taylor's book is so replete with leporine lore, so completely absorbed with the lives and (often grisly) deaths of our hares that you can't help but see the creatures with new eyes."(Alex Preston, The Guardian) To the people of rural Britain, har ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young
    The Secret Life of Cows - by Rosamund Young

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571345793 | ISBN 10: 0571345794

    ****A Sunday Times bestseller*** ***A Times Book of the Year 2017***  WITH A FOREWORD BY ALAN BENNETT "A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows."(James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life) Cows are as varied as ... more

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  • Cover image of book What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe
    What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins - by Jonathan Balcombe

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786072092 | ISBN 10: 1786072092

    An Observer Book of the Year 2017 A Sunday Times must read A New York Times Bestseller   Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama - ‘Balcombe vividly shows that fish have feelings and deserve consideration and protection like other sent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Down to the River and Up to the Trees: Discover the Hidden Nature on Your Doorstep by Sue Belfrage
    Down to the River and Up to the Trees: Discover the Hidden Nature on Your Doorstep - by Sue Belfrage

    £9.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780008255268 | ISBN 10: 0008255261

    In a stressful, chaotic world, many of us are turning to nature for a sense of serenity and happiness.  While the idea of the wild outdoors is enticing, though, our busy lives and our location can cause us to become detached from nature. Down t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
    The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland - by John Lewis-Stempel

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784160746 | ISBN 10: 1784160741

    The Sunday Times Bestseller - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017   Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wildlife Photographer of the Year 26 by Rosamund Kidmund Cox
    Wildlife Photographer of the Year 26 - by Rosamund Kidmund Cox

    £25.00   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780565093952 | ISBN 10: 0565093959

    For more than 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill, and narrative excellence.   This powerful coll ... more

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  • Cover image of book Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau
    Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods - by Richard B. Primack

    £10.50   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780226272290 | ISBN 10: 022627229x

    In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Amongst the Wolves: Memoirs of a Wolf Handler by Toni Shelbourne
    Amongst the Wolves: Memoirs of a Wolf Handler - by Toni Shelbourne

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781845847609 | ISBN 10: 1845847601

    One girl, eleven wolves – and a whole host of heart-warming stories.   Toni Shelbourne would never have believed that a phone call, one morning, from a wolf handler at the UK Wolf Conservation Trust would lead to ten years of unique experience ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Rhinos by Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence
    The Last Rhinos - by Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781447203803 | ISBN 10: 1447203801

    Lawrence Anthony's South African game reserve is home to many animals he has saved, from a remarkable herd of elephants to a badly behaved bushbaby called George.   Described as 'the Indiana Jones of conservation', when one of his rhinos was ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland
    Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach - by Jean Sprackland

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099532439 | ISBN 10: 0099532433

    An insightful and lyrical account of a year on one beach - part natural history, part meditation, part travelogue.  This is the ultimate beachcomber's book. A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale ... more

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  • Cover image of book Branches: Nature
    Branches: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts - by Philip Ball

    £16.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199604883 | ISBN 10: 0199604886

    As part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writer Philip Ball here looks at the form and growth of branching networks in the natural world, and what we can learn from them.  Many patterns ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford
    A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger - by Colin Elford

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141043180 | ISBN 10: 0141043180

    Colin Elford spends his days alone - alone but for the deer, the squirrels, the rabbits, the birds, and the many other creatures inhabiting the woods.   From the crisp cold of January, through the promise of spring and the heat of summer, and the ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Her Element: Women and the Landscape - An Anthology by Edited by Jane Macnamee
    In Her Element: Women and the Landscape - An Anthology - by Edited by Jane Macnamee

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781870206969 | ISBN 10: 1870206967

    Mountaineers, amblers, star-gazers, river-watchers, cavers, climbers, farmers, artists, sailors and ecologists - all these writers explore the elemental forces of the Welsh landscapes which have shaped their lives.  They all share a deep, personal ... more

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