Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
By: Bella Bathurst
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For many of us, Britain is countryside - drystone walls, stiles, sheep on a distant hillside. But f…
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1. Border Country (Library of Wales)
By: Raymond Williams , Dai Smith
4.03
Format: 450 pages, Paperback
When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke, his son Matthew, a lecturer in London… read more
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- british literature
2. Counting Sheep
By: Philip Walling
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Sheep are the thread that runs through the history of the English countryside. Our fortunes were on… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
- british literature
3. A Kestrel for a Knave
By: Barry Hines
3.60
Format: 253 pages,
With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hin… read more
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- animals
- british literature
4. Colonel Sun (James Bond, #15)
By: Kingsley Amis , Robert Markham
3.57
Format: None pages, Audiobook
An awe inspiring and suspense filled book! read more
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6. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
By: James Rebanks
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more
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8. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- nonfiction
- british literature
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
9. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
10. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- british literature
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
11. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
12. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
13. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape
By: Henry Dimbleby
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
15. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- british literature
"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
16. The Wild Silence
By: Raynor Winn
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- british literature
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
17. Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
By: Tim Marshall
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography We feel more divided… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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- agriculture
- british literature
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
19. Star Father (Star Mother, #2)
By: Charlie N. Holmberg
4.29
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
When the heavens go dark, hearts still glow for a mortal woman and a god in an exhilarating fantasy… read more
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20. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- british literature
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
21. Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
By: Bella Bathurst
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For many of us, Britain is countryside - drystone walls, stiles, sheep on a distant hillside. But f… read more
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- agriculture
- british literature
- animals
- nonfiction
- sociology
- environment
22. Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
By: Jonathan Coe
3.93
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid … read more
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"Com’è il morale? In generale"-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
"Lei insegna all’università, vero? E quindi conosce William Blake."-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
"C' erano poche cose altrettanto intime per lei che curiosare insiemeba qualcuno tra i libri"-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
"Frustrato, Doug tentò un’altra strada. “Ascolta, supponiamo che la maggioranza voti per la Brexit e noi..."-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
23. The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more
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24. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
By: Nick Hayes
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- british literature
25. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
By: Helen Rebanks
3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
26. The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah
By: Masanobu Fukuoka
3.53
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In The Dragonf… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- agriculture
27. Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm
By: Lee Schofield
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote easter… read more
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28. Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution
By: Sarah Langford
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of f… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- agriculture
29. Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
By: Derek Gow
3.97
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously f… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- animals
- environment
30. Land Healer: How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside
By: Jake Fiennes
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
'Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain... a revolutionising force' Isabella Tree … read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- agriculture
31. Tracking The Highland Tiger: In Search of Scottish Wildcats
By: Marianne Taylor
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The mysterious Scottish Wildcat--Britain's rarest mammal, and one of the most endangered carnivores… read more
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