Elegy For a River: Whiskers, Claws and Conservation’s Last, Wild Hope
By: Tom Moorhouse
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE 'particularly enjoyable' 'Somehow laugh-out-loud funny - passionate, warm…
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1. The Island
By: Victoria Hislop
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past… read more
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2. Wakenhyrst
By: Michelle Paver
3.87
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wa… read more
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3. 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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- ecology
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- 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
4. China Room
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"The follow-up to his Booker Prize-shortlisted The Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota's new novel follows cha… read more
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"It’s different for women, isn’t it? They have no choice where they go. They grow up in a prison and then get married into one."-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
"You know what the best thing is about falling out of love? It sets you free. Because when you’re in love it is everything, it is imprisoning, it is all there is, and you’d do anything, anything to ke…"-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
5. 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
- 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
6. The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
By: Peter Wohlleben
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The H… read more
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- ecology
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"The more we acknowledge that even the smallest disturbance can lead to unpredictable changes, the stronger the arguments for protecting larger areas of the environment."-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
"A whole generation of trees, including many that are deciduous, is standing by to form a solid foundation for the old-growth forest of the future, which means that bark beetles are more than just fun…"-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
7. Reykjavík: A Crime Story
By: Ragnar Jónasson
3.66
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, bri… read more
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8. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
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
- nature
10. Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness
By: Alastair Humphreys
4.44
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
‘Agile, wryly funny and wise’ Robert Macfarlane A search for nearby nature and wildness After years… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
11. 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
- ecology
- environment
"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
12. SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life
By: Jenny Tough
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The incredible story of a six-continent journey of self-discovery Jenny Tough is an endurance athl… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet
By: Jenny Graham
4.56
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman's solo lap of the planet by… read more
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- nonfiction
14. The Strawberry Thief (Chocolat, #4)
By: Joanne Harris
4.05
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
The compelling new novel from the author of the bestselling Chocolat. Vianne Rocher has settled … read more
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"Love is the thing that only God sees."-Joanne Harris, The Strawberry Thief (Chocolat, #4)
"Because art is like love. It goes feral if you keep it to yourself. Art is made to be given away, otherwise, it just rots."-Joanne Harris, The Strawberry Thief (Chocolat, #4)
"Here, try one of my mendiants . Dark chocolate, sour cherries, and a sprinkling of coarse black pepper. They're new. Tell me what you think."-Joanne Harris, The Strawberry Thief (Chocolat, #4)
"Sometimes, being told not to do something just makes us want it all the more. Sometimes, a little of what you crave is better than total abstinence."-Joanne Harris, The Strawberry Thief (Chocolat, #4)
15. 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
- ecology
- environment
16. Surfacing
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jami… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
"But every day brought enlivening moments and laughter. One day a BBC crew appeared, driving down to the beach in a big black Range Rover. Everyone kept their heads down and pretended to be very busy …"-Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing
17. Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds
By: Benedict Macdonald
4.57
Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition
Rebirding takes the long view of Britain’s wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- ecology
- environment
18. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
19. Elegy For a River: Whiskers, Claws and Conservation’s Last, Wild Hope
By: Tom Moorhouse
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE 'particularly enjoyable' 'Somehow laugh-out-loud funny - passionate, warm… read more
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- ecology
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
20. Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Garden
By: Marchelle Farrell
4.09
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
What is home?It’s a question that has troubled Marchelle Farrell for her entire life. A longed-for … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
21. The Wren: A Biography
By: Stephen Moss
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The wren is a paradox of a bird. On the one hand wrens are ubiquitous. They are Britain’s most comm… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
