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…
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1. The Rotters' Club
By: Jonathan Coe
3.96
Format: 415 pages, Paperback
Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescen… read more
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"...he was the proud owner of a quite colossal member, which on the many awestruck occasions it had been exposed to public view had been compared variously to a giant frankfurter, an overfed python, a…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"ja niin elämässäni kaikki tuntuu tänään muuttuneen, jopa kaupunki muuttaa muotoaan ympärilläni, minä istun Paradise Placella ja katson Muistojen saliin päin ja yhtäkkiä kaikki viittaa minuun ja Cicel…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"They sat and drank their pints. The tables in which their faces were dimly reflected were dark brown, the darkest brown, the colour of Bournville chocolate. The walls were a lighter brown, the colour…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"Hey - Duggie! Duggie! Duggie!" He came running up to me, sparkler in hand. I felt like sticking one on him, the cheeky bastard. Nobody called me Duggie. He held the sparkler up in front of my face an…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
2. The Spinning Heart
By: Donal Ryan
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Hardcover
In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As v… read more
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3. Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Corfu Trilogy #2)
By: Gerald Durrell
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to My Fami… read more
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4. Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
By: George Monbiot
4.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This book explodes with wonder and delight. Making use of remarkable scientific discoveries that tr… read more
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5. Selected Short Stories
By: Guy de Maupassant , None
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
This volume contains 30 of Maupassant's classic stories: Boule de Suif; In the Spring; The Graveyar… read more
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6. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- audiobook
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
7. Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland
By: Lisa Schneidau
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
The islands of Britain and Ireland hold a rich heritage of plant folklore and wisdom, from the magi… read more
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"In the old days, there were bogles, the horrid things, creeping in the darkness, ready to take people. And even in the daytime, when there weren't bogles, people were always fretting about them, or s…"-Lisa Schneidau, Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland
8. 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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- animals
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- audiobook
"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
9. Diary of a Young Naturalist
By: Dara McAnulty
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From sprin… read more
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"Many people accuse me of “not looking autistic"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I have the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist, and bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world."-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"As I ran to join my family for the last stretch of the walk at Glendalough, leaving St Kevin and the blackbird behind, a solar glare draped over us, connected us to the land with invisible strings. A…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I'm surrounded by five or six fly agaric mushrooms. Like them, I have burst open. I feel more resilient, more powerful. [...] I can't just love the natural world. I have to raise my voice even louder…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
10. The Librarian
By: Salley Vickers
3.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Clea… read more
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11. 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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- 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
12. Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey through Britain and Ireland
By: Leif Bersweden
4.34
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
‘When was the last time you stopped and noticed a wild plant?’ An intriguing and timely explorat… read more
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- nonfiction
- natural history
"Our experience of nature is becoming more and more about what we see on our screens, and less about actually being outside and experiencing it for ourselves. Crouched on the fellside, nose to flower …"-Leif Bersweden, Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey through Britain and Ireland
13. 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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- natural history
- audiobook
"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
14. 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)
15. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- nature
- audiobook
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
16. 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
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- natural history
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- audiobook
"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
17. 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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18. 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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19. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
20. The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet
By: Dave Goulson
4.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** The Garden Jungle is a wonderful introduction to the hundreds of sm… read more
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"much of the peat sold in garden centres is now imported from other countries, notably from Ireland, Estonia, Latvia and Finland. Estonia is a wild and unspoiled country where bears and wolves still r…"-Dave Goulson, The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet
"We are all complicit, and farmer-bashing is not going to help. We need farmers, more than any other profession. If lawyers, politicians, bankers, university academics or salesmen were to somehow disa…"-Dave Goulson, The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet
21. 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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22. The Wilderness Cure
By: Mo Wilde
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'A triumph' The TLS 'This special and magical book has changed the way I see the world' Dan Saladin… read more
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- nonfiction
- natural history
- audiobook
23. Orchid Summer: In Search of the Wildest Flowers of the British Isles
By: Jon Dunn
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A heady celebration of the beauty and history of the wild orchid species of the British Isles, embr… read more
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24. Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other
By: James Aldred
4.33
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
In early 2020, wildlife cameraman James Aldred was commissioned to film the lives of a family of Go… read more
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25. The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small
By: Isabella Tree
4.55
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Important and empowering' - BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 'Get this great… read more
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- gardening
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- nature
- audiobook
26. Woodston: The Biography of an English Farm
By: John Lewis-Stempel
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In the beginning was the earth... From the Paleozoic volcanoes that stained its soil, to the Saxons… read more
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27. Into the Tangled Bank: In Which Our Author Ventures Outdoors to Consider the British in Nature
By: Lev Parikian
4.14
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Lev Parikian is on a journey to discover the quirks, habits and foibles of how the British experien… read more
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28. The Story Spinner
By: Barbara Erskine
4.42
Format: 513 pages, Kindle Edition
The land of the Silures, 382 AD Elen is a princess promised to a general of Rome. Macsen came to… read more
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29. Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? 200 birds, 12 months, 1 lapsed birdwatcher
By: Lev Parikian
4.52
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lapsed and hopeless birdwatcher’s attempt to see 200 birds in a year As a 12-year-old, I was an … read more
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30. Nature’s Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back
By: Sophie Yeo
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the natural world. Our activities have p… read more
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31. Chasing the Ghost: My Search for all the Wild Flowers of Britain
By: Peter Marren
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Join Sunday Times bestselling author and renowned naturalist Peter Marren on an exciting quest to s… read more
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