Light Rains Sometimes Fall: A British Year through Japan’s 72 Ancient Seasons
By: Lev Parikian
4.29
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
See the British year afresh as we follow twelve months via the traditional Japanese calendar of sev…
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1. The Te of Piglet
By: Benjamin Hoff
3.76
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
In The Te of Piglet, the Piglet character of the Winnie the Pooh books explains the Chinese concept… read more
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- nonfiction
"Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has."-Benjamin Hoff, The Te of Piglet
"When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be."-Benjamin Hoff, The Te of Piglet
"Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you."-Benjamin Hoff, The Te of Piglet
"It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very sma…"-Benjamin Hoff, The Te of Piglet
2. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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3. First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety
By: Sarah Wilson
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This journey is what I do now. I bump along, in fits and starts, on a perpetual path to finding bet… read more
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4. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.01
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more
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- british literature
5. 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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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"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
6. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)
By: Shaun Bythell
4.11
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more
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- nonfiction
7. 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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- nonfiction
- ecology
- 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
8. An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11)
By: T.E. Kinsey
4.53
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
They’re hoping this visit is a return journey—but it might be a one-way ticket to murder. July 1… read more
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- british literature
"Chap's been shot in the Tramway Centre." "Nasty place to be shot," I said. "I wouldn't want to be shot in the Tramway Centre."-T.E. Kinsey, An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11)
"Hello Sim, dear," said Lady Hardcastle. "We've come to see your body." Dr. Gosling laughed. "I say, that's rather forward of you, Em. I had no idea you felt that way."-T.E. Kinsey, An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11)
9. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
10. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
By: Bridget Collins
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more
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11. 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
12. The Invisible Women’s Club
By: Helen Paris
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ignored.Seventy-something Janet Pimm is invisible. Spending most of her days alone, she tends her b… read more
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13. 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
14. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
15. 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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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
16. The Second Chance Store
By: Lauren Bravo
3.61
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more
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- british literature
17. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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- british literature
18. 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
19. Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
By: Lucy Mangan
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on … read more
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- nonfiction
- british literature
"Each book is a world entire. You're going to have to take more than one pass at it."-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
"The intensity of childhod reading, the instant and complete absorption in a book - a good book, a bad book, in any kind of book - is something I would give much to recapture"-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
"The philosopher and psychologist Riccardo Manzotti describes the process of reading and rereading as creating both locks and keys with which to open them; it shows you an area of life you didn't even…"-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
20. Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women
By: Annabel Abbs-Streets
4.06
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A Smithsonian Top Ten Best Book About Travel of 2021 2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
21. Wanderers: A History of Women Walking
By: Kerri Andrews
3.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
22. 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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23. When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster
By: Lucy Easthope
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Professor Lucy Easthope is the UK's leading authority on recovering from disaster. She's the one th… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Geological Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
By: Christopher Somerville
3.81
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville, author of The J… read more
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25. The Home Child
By: Liz Berry
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a true story, a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home. From award-winnin… read more
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26. 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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- nature
27. 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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- nature
28. Wild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days
By: Donna Ashworth
4.41
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
Wild Hope is Donna Ashworth's powerful new collection of wisdom to help us find hope, peace, self-a… read more
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29. Light Rains Sometimes Fall: A British Year through Japan’s 72 Ancient Seasons
By: Lev Parikian
4.29
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
See the British year afresh as we follow twelve months via the traditional Japanese calendar of sev… read more
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- british literature
- nonfiction
- japan
- birds
- environment
- nature
30. American Gardens
By: Monty Don
3.81
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Monty Don, Britain's treasured horticulturalist, and renowned photographer Derry Moore explore icon… read more
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31. Art Against Despair
By: The School of Life
4.39
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring selection of images offering us hope and comfort, reminding us that we are not alone i… read more
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