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…
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1. The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
By: Andrea Wulf
4.37
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's C… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
2. The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals
By: Patrick Barkham
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Butterflies animate our summers but the 59 butterfly species of the British Isles can be surprising… read more
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3. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more
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4. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- memoir
- british literature
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
5. How To Catch A Mole
By: Marc Hamer
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'It is rare to encounter such respect and understanding of nature for herself.' Rosamund Young, aut… read more
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- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"A feeling of belonging brings with it a desire to build something to mark one's connection, and then, having built - a garden, a house, a career, a tunnel system - one has to protect those things fro…"-Marc Hamer, How To Catch A Mole
6. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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- nonfiction
- british literature
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
7. The Sleeping Beauties
By: Suzanne O'Sullivan
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Suzanne O'Sullivan's THE SLEEPING BEAUTIES, an exploration of different aspects of psychosomatic di… read more
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- nonfiction
"A person looking for help must keep in mind what help there is."-Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties
"The mind is a function of the brain and is created from biology."-Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties
"If you can't say what is happening in the brain, nobody will care."-Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties
"... alternating between anticipation and despondency. That has physical consequences."-Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties
8. The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
By: Mark Synnott
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
***NPR Books We Love selection*** “If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
9. 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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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"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
10. 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
- memoir
- british literature
- natural history
- nonfiction
- 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
11. 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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- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"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
12. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
13. Hare House
By: Sally Hinchcliffe
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Sally Hinchcliffe’s Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney.… read more
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"We soon fell silent too, and above and around us came the murmur of all the countless branches; a distant sort of a noise, ungraspable yet pervasive, like voices in another room."-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House
"It was then, as I hesitated, that the head stepped in and said, 'We don't want a witch hunt'. I looked from one to another of them, and then back to her. Three very different women but in each of the…"-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House
"It's not a simple matter. You can drain the water or grit the ice, or move the wall. It makes no difference in the end. It's just a bad spot here, and always has been. A crossroads. The place where t…"-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House
14. Ten Birds That Changed the World
By: Stephen Moss
3.97
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
15. The Wild Silence
By: Raynor Winn
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more
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- memoir
- british literature
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
16. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more
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- nonfiction
"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
17. The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
By: Susannah Cahalan
3.64
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness-how do you diagnose it, how do you t… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey through Britain and Ireland
By: Leif Bersweden
4.34
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
‘When was the last time you stopped and noticed a wild plant?’ An intriguing and timely explorat… read more
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- nature
- ecology
- memoir
- british literature
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
"Our experience of nature is becoming more and more about what we see on our screens, and less about actually being outside and experiencing it for ourselves. Crouched on the fellside, nose to flower …"-Leif Bersweden, Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey through Britain and Ireland
19. How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
By: Tom Mustill
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who wen… read more
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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"What confounds this dilemma further is that individual animals within a species have varying cognitive abilities. To quote the Yosemite National Park ranger who, when asked why it was proving so hard…"-Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
20. The Skeleton Key
By: Erin Kelly
3.78
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART... Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insist… read more
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21. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it
By: Michael Rosen
4.00
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
22. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
23. 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
24. 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
- ecology
- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
25. 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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- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
26. Braver
By: Deborah Jenkins
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Hazel has never felt normal. Struggling with OCD and anxiety, she isolates herself from others and … read more
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27. Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden
By: Benedict Macdonald
4.42
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Everything from grey squirrels to hornets, tawny owls to hazel dormice and even stoats and common t… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
28. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
29. Hermit: A Memoir Of Finding Freedom In A Wild Place
By: Jade Angeles Fitton
4.11
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
' I never imagined that the wind would blow me here, to a kind of isolation I have never experience… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
30. 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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- ecology
- memoir
- british literature
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
31. Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britain's ancient paths
By: Phoebe Smith
3.56
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A woman’s tale of the transformative power of walking on Britain’s ancient pilgrim paths. Faced … read more
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