Water Ways: A thousand miles along Britain's canals
By: Jasper Winn
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways…
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1. Oranges
By: John McPhee
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and o… read more
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2. Birdsong
By: Sebastian Faulks
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be r… read more
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3. The Architect's Apprentice
By: Elif Shafak
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the heigh… read more
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4. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
5. Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
By: Jon Ronson
3.65
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times-bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about the dark, unc… read more
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6. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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7. Murder on Black Swan Lane (A Wrexford & Sloane Mystery, #1)
By: Andrea Penrose
4.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Regency London, an unconventional scientist and a fearless female artist form an unlikely allian… read more
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8. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
9. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
10. Notes on a Nervous Planet
By: Matt Haig
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A follow-up to Matt Haig's internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader loo… read more
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"Be kind to yourself."-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
"Don’t worry about things you can’t control."-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
"Accept feelings and accept that they are just that: feelings."-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
"Don’t let anyone or anything make you feel you aren’t enough."-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
11. Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
By: Jeremy Clarkson
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bu… read more
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12. 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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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. Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
By: Jessica Pan
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An introvert spends a year trying to live like an extrovert with hilarious results and advice for r… read more
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"That’s the truth of the world, Jessica,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I hate flakiness, and I blame the Facebook ‘Maybe’ button,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I'm giddy just imagining the shit I'll get up to when I'm eighty."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I watched my first penalty shoot-out during the World Cup 2014 (Brazil vs. Chile): men cried, I cried, Neymar cried. I was done for. I loved it."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
15. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
16. Cat Lady
By: Dawn O'Porter
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more
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"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady
17. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
By: Angela Hui
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more
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18. 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
19. Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
By: Qing Li
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Shinrin = Forest Yoku = Bathing Shinrin-Yoku or forest bathing is the practice of spending time … read more
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"Children who have fun in nature will become adults to care for and protect it. If we let our children play outside now, they will become the green architects of the future…"-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
"In the end, it is our children’s relationship with the natural world that determines its future. If we let our children go into the forest, they will become adults who will protect it."-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
"Czy zwróciłeś kiedyś uwagę, jak przyjemnie chodzi się boso po piasku, trawie albo ziemi?Nie bierze się to tylko z ulgi po zdjęciu sztywnych butów albo zrzuceniu wysokich obcasów. Kiedy dotykasz podło…"-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
"Wszyscy znamy cudowny zapach lasu po ulewie. Kiedy długo nie pada, w glebie i na skałach gromadzą się olejki roślinne. To jeden ze sposobów roślin na przetrwanie okresów suszy. Podczas deszczu woda u…"-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
20. A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
By: Peter Ross
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the … read more
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"Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it."-Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
21. Water Ways: A thousand miles along Britain's canals
By: Jasper Winn
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways… read more
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