Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows
By: Roger Morgan-Grenville
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Since highland cattle ransacked his grandmother's vegetable patch when he was six, Roger Morgan-Gre…
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1. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
By: John Lewis-Stempel
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an Englis… read more
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2. Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
By: Jeremy Clarkson
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Welcome back to Clarkson's farm. At the end of Jeremy's first year, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him … read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
3. 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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4. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
5. 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
- 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
6. Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
By: James Davies
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. Th… read more
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- nonfiction
"I have asked them to pay attention to what they have just said. In particular to their use of the phrase “mental illness"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
"If our basic needs were neglected: our need for safety, economic security, loving connection, autonomy, self-realization and meaningful work, our need to feel equal and respected, then poor emotional…"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
"What we need is a profound rethinking of the nature of suffering itself, and what it is trying to highlight and ask us to change. We need to repoliticise emotional discontent in the minds of teachers…"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
"Tim Kasser: ‘The heyday of humanistic psychology was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Keynes dominated. But since the rise of neo-liberalism from the 1980s, we’ve seen an influx of cognitive behavioural …"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
7. Companion Piece
By: Ali Smith
3.82
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, s… read more
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8. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
9. When We Lost Our Heads
By: Heather O'Neill
3.97
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destro… read more
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"Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child’s fist."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"She felt jealousy pounding like enemy soldiers at the gate."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
10. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
By: Victoria Mackenzie
3.85
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more
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"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
11. Family Politics
By: John O'Farrell
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back i… read more
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12. The Black Flamingo
By: Dean Atta
4.35
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen - then at university he finds his w… read more
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"Don’t let anyone tell you that you are half anything."-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
"Be a bit gay, be very gay. Be the glitter that shows up in unexpected places."-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
"To have a loving family is to feel afraid and yet believe you are going to be all right."-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
"I know that’s wrong, my thinking was wrong, the different ones are often the most strong"-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
13. The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
By: Angela Saini
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to und… read more
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- nonfiction
14. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
By: Helen Rebanks
3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
15. Rule, Nostalgia
By: Hannah Rose Woods
3.99
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
Britain is an island ruled by nostalgia, but nostalgia today isn't what it used to be... Longing to… read more
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16. 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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- 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
17. The Owl and the Nightingale
By: Unknown
4.09
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl , Simon Armitage … read more
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"Who speaks well ... fights well,' goes the song; she'd wage war with her voice instead. 'To fight well, speak well,' Alfred said."-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
"If Beauty called it didn't stay, & Virtue looked the other way. Another charge that I will file: your habits, like your looks, are vile."-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
"The wise have noted more than once that he who argues with a dunce might just as well compare his jaw against an oven's yawning door. And now a saying comes to mind, a proverb that King Alfred coined…"-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
"Through pity, then, I can't resist delivering a song of bliss when witnessing the painful trace that love leaves in a young girl's face. I try to teach them, through my song, love of that kind will n…"-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
18. Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution
By: Sarah Langford
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of f… read more
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- nature
19. The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
By: John Connell
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Shepherd’s Life, a poignant memoir—and #1 Irish bestseller—about a wayward son’s re… read more
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- animals
- nature
"To be a farmer is to be a student forever, for each day brings something new."-John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
"I do this because we have always done this. I do this in a way beyond religion. I do this in a way of culture"-John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
"Senility is best described in the old tongue, duine le Dia, for in that phrase is a kinder, more understanding view of the condition. Its literal meaning is “a person of God,"-John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
20. Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World
By: Miriam Darlington
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A plan formed in my mind. I would explore the places in this land that hid my grail. I would spend … read more
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- animals
- nature
21. Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows
By: Roger Morgan-Grenville
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Since highland cattle ransacked his grandmother's vegetable patch when he was six, Roger Morgan-Gre… read more
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- animals
- nature
