Still Water: The Deep Life of the Pond
By: John Lewis-Stempel
3.68
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The Times and Irish BEST NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEARGreat nature writing needs to be informative, deta…
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1. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
By: Roger Deakin
4.27
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 1996 Roger Deakin, the late, great nature writer, set out to swim through the British Isles. Fro… read more
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2. Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
By: Mary Renault
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from G… read more
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3. The Debt to Pleasure
By: John Lanchester
3.32
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book, The Debt to P… read more
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4. Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest Expeditions
By: David Attenborough
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 1954, a young television presenter was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the wor… read more
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5. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
By: Jean Rhys , Diana Athill
4.06
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
Jean Rhys' unfinished posthumous autobiography. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time i… read more
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6. Kolja
By: Arthur Japin
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sint-Petersburg en de Tsjaikovski's - een nieuwe grote historische roman van de meester in het genr… read more
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7. The Jane Austen Book Club
By: Karen Joy Fowler
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Extraordinary New York TimesBestsellerIn California's central valley, five women and one man jo… read more
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8. Starter for Ten
By: David Nicholls
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his first ter… read more
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9. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
By: Adam Nicolson
3.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more
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"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
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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"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. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
12. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By: Andrew H. Knoll
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more
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13. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
14. 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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- 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
15. George: A Magpie Memoir
By: Frieda Hughes
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him.” From poet and painter… read more
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"The joy of such a purpose is that it gives you a reason to ignore everything else. There is nothing so effective in taking one's mind off the practical concerns of our lives as a living creature that…"-Frieda Hughes, George: A Magpie Memoir
16. Pod
By: Laline Paull
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean—and into … read more
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"To spin like everyone else was the key to fitting in, and if she could only hear the music of the ocean like everyone else, she too would be able to tune in and do it."-Laline Paull, Pod
17. Alien Clay
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more
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18. Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
By: Harold Schechter
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Kill… read more
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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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
22. A Wood of One's Own
By: Ruth Pavey
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
After years of living in London's urban jungle, Ruth Pavey dreamt of reconnecting with the British … read more
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23. The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more
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24. 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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25. brother. do. you. love. me.
By: Manni Coe
4.39
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
brother. do. you. love. me. is the story of two brothers and their extraordinary journey of resilie… read more
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26. In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing
By: Niellah Arboine
4.02
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
An essay collection about gardening and our relationship to nature, following on from the successfu… read more
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27. 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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28. The Lifeline
By: Libby Page
4.19
Format: 391 pages, ebook
Everybody needs saving sometimes… For Kate, having a newborn baby means she is almost never alon… read more
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29. The Unremembered Places: Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories
By: Patrick Baker
4.07
Format: 203 pages, kindle_edition
There are strange relics hidden across Scotland's landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones … read more
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30. Ik ben vrij
By: Lale Gül
3.85
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
IIn februari 2021 werd Nederland overdonderd door Ik ga leven, de openhartige, ontroerende en vlijm… read more
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31. Still Water: The Deep Life of the Pond
By: John Lewis-Stempel
3.68
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The Times and Irish BEST NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEARGreat nature writing needs to be informative, deta… read more
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