The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari
By: Simon Barnes
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Rewild Yourself comes a brilliant new book that reveals the natural jo…
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1. Nature Cure
By: Richard Mabey
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Richard Mabey's descent into clinical depression was so annihilating that he could neither work nor… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
2. Round Ireland with a Fridge
By: Tony Hawks
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Have you ever made a drunken bet? Worse still, have you ever tried to win one? In attempting to hit… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. Eucalyptus
By: Murray Bail
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
The gruff widower Holland has two possessions he cherishes above all others: his sprawling property… read more
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4. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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5. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
6. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)
By: Richard Coles
3.90
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more
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7. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"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. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
By: Christian Lewis
4.40
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
10. I Am an Island
By: Tamsin Calidas
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on an island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home.… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"It was a time of hope and dreaming of your beautiful life, and Brit Pop singing the world real again."-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"On dementia: It is like you are living in a world with no connection to anyone or anything. It is lonely. It is like nobody is there."-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"Cancer bleeds the life out of you until there is nothing left. Once the body is not able to eat, it starts to sleep and its muscles and strength begin to waste away. But even then, the mind can still…"-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"When someone dies, their spirit is free. But no one is free that is left behind. (...) Grief is like soil. It is heavy and clings to your skin, even when you come up for air. And sometimes, even afte…"-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
11. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By: Peter Ross
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more
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- nonfiction
12. Light Over Liskeard
By: Louis de Bernières
3.72
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future.Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work… read more
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13. 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
14. 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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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
"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
15. The Rockpool Murder (Shell House Detectives, #3)
By: Emylia Hall
4.43
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
A stunning Cornish house, a shocking death—can The Shell House Detectives catch a killer hiding in … read more
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16. 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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- animals
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
17. Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
By: Derek Gow
3.97
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously f… read more
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- animals
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
18. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"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
19. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
20. La Vie: A Year In Rural France
By: John Lewis-Stempel
3.98
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
The roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun.… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
21. Cairn
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.34
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
22. The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way
By: Anthony Seldon
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Without a permanent home, a wife or a job, and with no clear sense of where his life was going, Ant… read more
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- nonfiction
23. The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari
By: Simon Barnes
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Rewild Yourself comes a brilliant new book that reveals the natural jo… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
24. 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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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
25. Goodbye Birdie Greenwing
By: Ericka Waller
4.29
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget...Birdie, Ada and Jane … read more
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26. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
27. Be a Birder: Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2024
By: Hamza Yassin
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
'Birds have been with me my entire life - from the colourful weaver birds on the banks of the Nile … read more
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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
28. Birdsong in a Time of Silence
By: Steven Lovatt
3.83
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature. "At this tim… read more
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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
29. One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate
By: Kate Bradbury
4.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Five years after her first book, Kate Bradbury has a new, slightly bigger garden two miles away. Ka… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Every Day Nature: How noticing nature can quietly change your life
By: Andy Beer
4.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Nature is all around us we only need to look Celebrate the ordinary wonders of the natural world… read more
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- nature
