5 must-read natural history books like The Quiet Moon: Pathways to an Ancient Way of Being by Kevin Parr

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The Quiet Moon: Pathways to an Ancient Way of Being

By: Kevin Parr

3.53

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

The ancient Celts lived by and worshipped the moon. While modern, digital life is often at odds wit…

If you liked the natural history plot in The Quiet Moon: Pathways to an Ancient Way of Being by Kevin Parr , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.11

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impo… read more

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"... обнадеждена безнадеждност..."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"Всяко нещо струва толкова, за колкото може да се купи."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"... да се прокрадва крадешком и да се мотае мотешком..."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"Госпожица Уилоуби не обичаше провинцията. Намираше я за провинциална."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

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2. The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wickedness...such wickedness...." The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes.… read more

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"After all, the stupidest child can set a house on fire quite easily."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

"Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

"People are so proud of wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it? That's where Christian humility comes in, I suppose. They don't even know they are good."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something LESS than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

3. The Pursuit of Love

By: Nancy Mitford

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the i… read more

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4. The Lewis Man (The Lewis Trilogy, #2)

By: Peter May

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. The male Caucasian corpse is initially be… read more

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5. The Hours Before Dawn

By: Celia Fremlin

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

This novel, one of the Virago Crime Classics, combines humour with a look at the danger and suspens… read more

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6. Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (Adrian Mole, #8)

By: Sue Townsend

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Hardcover

When we last heard from Adrian, he had fallen in love with Daisy Flowers and they had embarked on a… read more

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7. Darling

By: India Knight

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for grea… read more

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8. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

By: Bridget Collins

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more

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9. 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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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
"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

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10. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. The Crone of Midnight Embers (Myrtlewood Crones #1)

By: Iris Beaglehole

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Why don't more 60-something-year-olds get to have fun magical adventures? Delia Spark is caught in … read more

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"Every frost has its thaw, every light its shadow. The question remains: which will prevail?"

-Iris Beaglehole, The Crone of Midnight Embers (Myrtlewood Crones #1)

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12. Lanny

By: Max Porter

4.06

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more

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"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."

-Max Porter, Lanny

"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."

-Max Porter, Lanny

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13. Night Side of the River

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more

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"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

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14. The Foundling

By: Stacey Halls

3.99

Format: 400 pages, ebook

London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hosp… read more

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"Waarom moesten we de kaarten die ons waren toebedeeld, klakkeloos accepteren?"

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

"Mijn wereld was gekrompen tot de grootte van een walnoot. En toen was Daniel naar een van tante Cassandra's feestjes gekomen en had hij de noot gekraakt."

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

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15. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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16. Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

By: Eleanor Parker

4.17

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seaso… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"A man cannot grow wise before he has had his share of winters in the world."

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

"Whatever one thing we give to God's needy for the sake of his love, he will repay us for it a hundredfold in the life to come."

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

"In a time of ecological crisis, Anglo-Saxon poems which recognize how fundamentally we are connected to the rhythms of nature - how dependent we are on the well-being of the earth, how grateful we sh…"

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

"The cycle of the seasons, to which poets have so often turned as a reminder that nothing in this world is stable, is in fact one of the great constants in life. In some ways, the thousand years or mo…"

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

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17. 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
  • natural history
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18. Pandora

By: Susan Stokes-Chapman

3.67

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

London, 1799. Dora Blake, an aspiring jewelry artist, lives with her odious uncle atop her late par… read more

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"but since when did gratitude mean the acceptance of rage?"

-Susan Stokes-Chapman, Pandora

"It amazes him how much money rich people seem happy to waste on entertainment for one mere evening."

-Susan Stokes-Chapman, Pandora

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19. The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.14

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award  Praise for Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series   “G… read more

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"Libraries are the cathedrals of the modern age. All that knowledge, available for anyone to use. It’s quite a subversive thought."

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"Does the world really need another long essay on environmental archaeology and freshwater mollusks? Well, it's going to get one, whether it likes it or not."

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"His mind isn't reacting properly, plodding along the byways and cul-de-sacs because it can't face the traffic on the main highway. But when it comes to it, his life has once more become a straight ro…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"It's a long shot but we can't leave any stone unturned. Cloughie, you get onto the number plate.' It's an odd phrase, thinks Nelson, as he runs the CCTV footage one more time. He thinks of the tunnel…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

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20. The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.05

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway—“a captivating amateur sleuth” (Louise Penny)—and… read more

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"Look which way the bones lie. The position tells you everything. In Christian burials, bodies are usually buried facing east, supposedly towards heaven. Sometimes priests and religious leaders are bu…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)

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21. The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.97

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Known as England’s Nazareth, the medieval town of Little Walsingham is famous for religious apparit… read more

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"He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one."

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

"Nelson is glad to see a handler and her dog coming towards him. The recognises the woman as Jan Adams, famous in Norfolk for having won several medals for bravery. Her dog, a beautiful long-haired Ge…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

"Nelson's first thought is that Father Hennessey looks as bad as he does. The priest is still an intimidating presence, with his rugby player's shoulders and boxer's nose, but his eyes are shadowed an…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

"As Ruth only knows one priest (one male priest that is) she's not that surprised to find Father Hennessey waiting for her at one of the long tables, a cappucino in front of him. 'Hallo Ruth, sorry to…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

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22. 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
  • natural history
"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

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23. The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2)

By: Juno Dawson

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

In the second installment of Juno Dawson's irresistable fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of c… read more

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24. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

By: Alice Vincent

3.84

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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25. 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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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark by John Lewis-Stempel

26. 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

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27. Dark Folklore

By: Mark Norman

3.56

Format: 174 pages, None

How did our ancestors use the concept of demons to explain sleep paralysis? Is that carving in the … read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. The Wheel of the Year: A Nurturing Guide to Rediscovering Nature's Seasons and Cycles

By: Rebecca Beattie

4.09

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Rediscover nature’s cycles through the Wheel of the Year: a celebration of eight key moments within… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • nature
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29. Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)

By: Sophie Keetch

4.46

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

Lady Morgan surveys her life at an unhappy marriage and a vengeful husband determined to keep thei… read more

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30. The Quiet Moon: Pathways to an Ancient Way of Being

By: Kevin Parr

3.53

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

The ancient Celts lived by and worshipped the moon. While modern, digital life is often at odds wit… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • natural history
Cover of Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home by Amanda Thomson

31. Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home

By: Amanda Thomson

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature

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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

4.13

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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

Nathan Thrall

4.35

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Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

Eleanor Parker

4.17

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Alastair Humphreys

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Gill Hornby

3.69

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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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4.02

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Elodie Harper

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