5 must-read science books like The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure by Katherine Rundell

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The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

By: Katherine Rundell

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In …

"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asleep, and the same the next day, and the next. Each single seahorse contains enough wonder to knock the whole of humanity off its feet, if we would but pay attention."

-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

If you liked the science plot in The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure by Katherine Rundell , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Holloway

By: Robert Macfarlane , Stanley Donwood , Dan Richards

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll a… read more

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2. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By: Laura Cumming

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

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3. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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4. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • audiobook
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5. Tyger

By: S.F. Said

4.17

Format: 304 pages, None

In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more

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  • animals
  • audiobook
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6. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

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  • audiobook
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7. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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8. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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  • audiobook
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9. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

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  • audiobook
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10. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
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11. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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12. 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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  • audiobook
  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"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

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13. Twelve Words for Moss

By: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

3.75

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Moss is known as the living carpet but if you look really closely, it contains an irrepressible lig… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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14. Blossomise

By: Simon Armitage

4.22

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its mela… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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15. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

By: Katherine Rundell

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure book and Katherine Rundell's The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

  • audiobook
  • history
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

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16. 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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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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17. The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness

By: Amy-Jane Beer

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer’s love … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"There's a reason we can't look away [from water]. Psycologists call it a 'soft fascination': the sight and sound of moving water is sufficiently stimulating to occupy the brain, but irregular enough …"

-Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness

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18. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

By: Philip Ball

4.28

Format: 552 pages, Hardcover

A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to en… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"The growth and maintenance of living things like us is a delicate (but also robust) dance of cause and effect, cascading up and down the hierarchy of scales in space and time. This leads to that, but…"

-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

"I don’t anticipate a consensus any time soon on the question of how to define life, but it seems to me that cognition provides a much better, more apt way to talk about it than invoking more passive …"

-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

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19. Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden

By: Benedict Macdonald

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Everything from grey squirrels to hornets, tawny owls to hazel dormice and even stoats and common t… read more

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  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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20. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

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  • audiobook
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21. The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

By: Kate Morgan

4.18

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

A devastating work of non-fiction that reveals a hidden history of women, violence and the law. ’ … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

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4.16

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4.00

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