Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky
By: Sarah Gibson
3.98
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting mater…
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1. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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2. The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
By: Alice Roberts
4.20
Format: 251 pages,
The presenter of the BBC's The Incredible Human Journeygives us a new and highly accessible look at… read more
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3. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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4. My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
By: Gerald Durrell , Helma Lapiņa
4.17
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
5. The Sealwoman's Gift
By: Sally Magnusson
4.15
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including … read more
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6. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
7. A Single Thread
By: Tracy Chevalier
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become… read more
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"It is perhaps difficult to understand if you have not had children yourself. The biological imperative of the parent is to protect the child, and when that is impossible it feels like a failure, what…"-Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread
8. 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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9. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.96
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more
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10. The Perfect Golden Circle
By: Benjamin Myers
3.92
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more
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- nature
11. Bellies
By: Nicola Dinan
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more
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12. A Village in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more
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- nonfiction
13. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- natural history
14. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- natural history
"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
15. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
By: Nick Hayes
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- natural history
16. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Bitch: On the Female of the Species
By: Lucy Cooke
4.45
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology m… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
18. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- natural history
"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
19. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- natural history
20. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- natural history
"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
21. Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses
By: David Scheel
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A behavioral ecologist's riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discove… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- natural history
22. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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23. Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.23
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple q… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
24. Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky
By: Sarah Gibson
3.98
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting mater… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- environment
- nature
25. 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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- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- environment
- nature
26. Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future
By: Tom Bullough
3.98
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarn Helen - Helen's Causeway - is the old Roman Road that runs from the south of Wales to the nort… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
27. The Barn: The Extraordinary Life of an Unremarkable Building
By: Sally Coulthard
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The astonishing, socio-historic uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by best-selling n… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
By: Juliet Nicolson
3.44
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more
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- nonfiction
29. The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness and the Space In Between
By: Richard Mabey
3.74
Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition
We regard gardens as our personal dominions, where we can create whatever worlds we desire. But the… read more
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- nature
30. The Screaming Sky
By: Charles Foster
3.98
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Swifts live in perpetual summer. They inhabit the air like nothing on the planet. They watched the … read more
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- nature
- birds
- nonfiction
- natural history
"Promiscuous animals, by and large, have smaller brains, for relationship demands a good deal of processing power, and promiscuity is a denial of relationship. Monogamy, as many of us know, is costly …"-Charles Foster, The Screaming Sky
31. One Midsummer's Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth
By: Mark Cocker
4.07
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
It takes a whole universe to make one small black birdThe story of all life on Earth, told through … read more
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