On the Marsh: A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet
By: Simon Barnes
3.99
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
How the rewilding of eight acres of Norfolk marshland inspired a family and brought nature even clo…
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1. Cold Comfort Farm
By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more
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2. Beginner's Luck Guide For Non-Runners: Learn to Run from Scratch to an Hour in 10 Weeks
By: Gerry Duffy , George Anderson
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
Are you a complete beginner at running who wants to finally learn how to do it? Did you skive PE wh… read more
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3. X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries
By: Michael Scott
4.28
Format: 350 pages, ebook
Through eight sensational stories of discovery, Professor Michael Scott traces the evolution of mod… read more
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4. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
5. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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6. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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7. 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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- nature
- ecology
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- environment
"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
8. 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
9. 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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"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
10. 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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"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
11. 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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12. The Wisdom of Sheep: Observations from a Family Farm
By: Rosamund Young
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A touching, wise and surprising chronicle of the rich inner lives of animals, drawn from Rosamund Y… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary
By: Melissa Harrison
4.21
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
A nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, followi… read more
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15. Windswept
By: Annie Worsley
3.99
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's c… read more
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16. On the Marsh: A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet
By: Simon Barnes
3.99
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
How the rewilding of eight acres of Norfolk marshland inspired a family and brought nature even clo… read more
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- environment
17. 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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18. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
By: John Lewis-Stempel
4.02
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the… read more
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"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
19. Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing
By: Lev Parikian
4.26
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
This is the miracle of flight as you’ve never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the… read more
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20. High Performance: When Britain Ruled the Roads
By: Peter Grimsdale
4.46
Format: None pages, Audiobook
‘A band of stubborn pioneers rose from the embers of Britain’s cities after World War Two and creat… read more
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