The Glorious Life of the Oak
By: John Lewis-Stempel
3.82
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
'The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.'…
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1. Vinegar Girl
By: Anne Tyler
3.38
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible … read more
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2. Romola
By: George Eliot , Dorothea Barrett
3.76
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence … read more
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"The eager theorizing of ages is compressed, as in a seed, in the want of a single mind."-George Eliot, Romola
"His faith wavered, but not his speech: it is the lot of every man who has to speak for the satisfaction of the crowd, that he must often speak in virtue of yesterday's faith, hoping it will come back…"-George Eliot, Romola
"All minds, except such as are delivered from doubt by dulness of sensibility, must be subject to this recurring conflict where the many-twisted conditions of life have forbidden the fulfilment of a b…"-George Eliot, Romola
3. 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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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
4. Where's My Cow? (Discworld, #34.5)
By: Terry Pratchett , Melvyn Grant
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, Sam Vimes must go home to read Where's My … read more
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5. Revolting Rhymes
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
3.65
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Do you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, and that the three little … read more
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6. The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince (Realms of the Elderlings, #0.5)
By: Robin Hobb
3.70
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
One of the darkest legends in the Realm of the Elderlings recounts the tale of the so-called Piebal… read more
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7. Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind #8)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the latest novel from Terry Pratchett. Delivering the tra… read more
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8. The Heart of a Woman
By: Maya Angelou
3.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of … read more
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9. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- natural history
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
10. The Lost Spells
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a bea… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
"Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. But there has always been singing in the dark times-- and wonder is nee…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Spells
11. 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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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"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
12. Other Women
By: Emma Flint
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A husband. A wife. A lover. Each has a secret they’d kill to protect . . . From the author of Li… read more
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13. The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
By: Peter Wohlleben
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The H… read more
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- nature
- ecology
- natural history
- plants
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"The more we acknowledge that even the smallest disturbance can lead to unpredictable changes, the stronger the arguments for protecting larger areas of the environment."-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
"A whole generation of trees, including many that are deciduous, is standing by to form a solid foundation for the old-growth forest of the future, which means that bark beetles are more than just fun…"-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
14. Death of a Lesser God (Malabar House, #4)
By: Vaseem Khan
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
*** SHORTLISTED FOR HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR at the FINGERPRINT AWARDS ***In the fourth rip-roa… read more
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15. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
By: Ellis Peters
4.17
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more
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"Love shared is no sin."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
16. How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
By: Mac Barnett
4.26
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
The beloved, multi-award-winning duo of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen tackle a perennial question. … read more
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17. What You Need to Be Warm
By: Neil Gaiman
4.20
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
During the coldest season, when the world feels scary—what do you remember about being warm? Baked … read more
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18. 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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- ecology
- 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
19. Hex
By: Jenni Fagan
3.85
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more
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"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
20. Winnie-the-Pooh at the Palace: A brand new Winnie-the-Pooh adventure in rhyme, featuring A.A Milne's and E.H Shepard's classic characters
By: Jeanne Willis
3.87
Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition
Join Winnie-the-Pooh on a snowy day at Buckingham Palace!A rhyming picture-book adventure, Winnie-t… read more
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21. Mr Wilder & Me
By: Jonathan Coe
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England In the heady… read more
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"In circumstances this desperate there is only one thing that can console me. I always keep at least three different kinds of Brie in the kitchen for emergency situations."-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
"Mi hija tenía razón: la gente joven no se fija en los sentimientos de sus padres, ni siquiera es consciente de ellos la mayor parte del tiempo. Viven en un bendito estado de sociopatía en lo que resp…"-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
"The phallic symbolism of his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, is obvious. Lindbergh, in effect, is trapped inside an enormous penis which carries him onwards to an inevitable destination which cannot …"-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
"Here I sat down and closed my eyes, tilting my face towards the sun and listening to the gentle lap of the blue water against the rocks. Perhaps it was my destiny, after all, to be always alone: that…"-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
22. The Last Summer (Wild Isle, #1)
By: Karen Swan
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Wild-spirited Effie Gillies has lived all her life on the small island of St Kilda but when Lord Sh… read more
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"forcing her mind away from the past, even though the shadows slunk over her at every turn."-Karen Swan, The Last Summer (Wild Isle, #1)
"How many times had she crept into them as a little girl, playing hide and seek with Mhairi and Flora and their many brothers? Why couldn't one of those boys have grown into a man who made the very ed…"-Karen Swan, The Last Summer (Wild Isle, #1)
23. The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
By: Christopher Hadley
3.66
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? The Romans built thousands of mi… read more
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24. Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer & Other Stories
By: Reginald Hill
4.32
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A vicar nailed to a tree in Yorkshire. The theft of a priceless artefact during a fire. A detecti… read more
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25. The Glorious Life of the Oak
By: John Lewis-Stempel
3.82
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
'The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.'… read more
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- nature
- ecology
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- plants
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- environment
- science
26. The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an English Forest
By: Neil Ansell
4.11
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Part childhood memoir, blended with exquisite nature observation, and the story of one man's journe… read more
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- nonfiction
- natural history
27. Two for Joy: The myriad ways to enjoy the countryside
By: Adam Henson
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"I share Adam's love of farming and wildlife and I found this to be a fascinating and indispensable… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
28. The Girl Who Talked to Trees
By: Natasha Farrant
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Magical interlinked stories about what one girl learns from talking to trees throughout Time and fr… read more
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29. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more
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30. Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica
By: Duncan Mackay
4.37
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
Almost 2000 years ago, Boudica led the greatest rebellion Britain has ever seen. Within the space o… read more
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31. Murder at the Ritz (Hotel Mysteries, #1)
By: Jim Eldridge
3.92
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
August 1940. On the streets of London, locals watch with growing concern as German fighter planes p… read more
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