Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
By: Alice Vincent
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q…
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1. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- memoir
- gardening
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
2. What They Don't Teach You About Money: Seven Habits to Unlock Financial Independence
By: Claer Barrett
4.00
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
**The Instant Top Ten Bestseller**'Utterly indispensable.' Lorraine Kelly'A must-read.' Tim Harford… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
By: Lucy Jones
4.54
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
4. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
- audiobook
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
5. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
- audiobook
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
6. Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
By: Lucy Jones
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet na… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
7. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
By: Alice Vincent
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- gardening
- nonfiction
- essays
- 21st century
- womens
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
8. Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi
By: Sarah Clegg
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women – and then won back again. Demonic… read more
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- feminism
- womens
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Cacophony of Bone
By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
10. The Tidal Year
By: Freya Bromley
4.31
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Freya is still searching. For four years, she's been looking for a way to fill the empty space her … read more
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- environment
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
11. In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing
By: Niellah Arboine
4.02
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
An essay collection about gardening and our relationship to nature, following on from the successfu… read more
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- nature
- gardening
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
12. A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
By: Peter Ross
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the … read more
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- nonfiction
"Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it."-Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
13. Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
By: Patrick Grant
4.37
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick’s book is fascinat… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond
By: Ava Wong Davies
4.23
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
'There was something magical about the unplumbed depths, the moorhens, the dragonflies, the waterli… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- nature
15. Unearthed: On Race and Roots, and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong
By: Claire Ratinon
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural worl… read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
16. Turning
By: Jessica J. Lee
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Through the heat of summer to the frozen depths of winter, Lee traces her journey swimming through … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
17. Hermit: A Memoir Of Finding Freedom In A Wild Place
By: Jade Angeles Fitton
4.11
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
' I never imagined that the wind would blow me here, to a kind of isolation I have never experience… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
- audiobook
18. Nature Tales for Winter Nights
By: Nancy Campbell
3.22
Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition
___ From the author of Fifty Words for Snow comes a treasure trove of nature tales from storyteller… read more
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- nature
- essays
19. Drawn to the Garden
By: Caroline Quentin
4.56
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Find solace in your outdoor space in this delightful horticultural journey with actress Caroline Qu… read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
20. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?
By: Sofie Hagen
4.05
Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio
Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
