The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness and the Space In Between
By: Richard Mabey
3.74
Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition
We regard gardens as our personal dominions, where we can create whatever worlds we desire. But the…
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1. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
2. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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3. 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
- 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
4. 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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- nonfiction
- 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
5. The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads
By: Alistair Moffat
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
6. One Day I Shall Astonish the World
By: Nina Stibbe
3.49
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of Love, Nina , a frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb … read more
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7. Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival
By: Sophie Elmhirst
4.12
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
**A Guardian, Observer & Waterstones Nonfiction Book of 2024**'One of those very special books that… read more
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- nonfiction
8. 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
"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
9. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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10. The Glassmaker
By: Tracy Chevalier
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more
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"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
11. 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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- nonfiction
- nature
12. The Man in Black: Stories
By: Elly Griffiths
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This bumper collection of short stories by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved … read more
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13. A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects
By: Sally Coulthard
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts For most of human history, we w… read more
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14. Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity
By: Paul Strathern
3.40
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and … read more
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- nonfiction
"Динамиката на един велик град рядко се намира в равновесие. Функциониращите институции и установените нрави винаги ще са юзда за свободомислещите, визионерите и изобретателните."-Paul Strathern, Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity
15. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)
By: Donna Leon
4.05
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more
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16. One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate
By: Kate Bradbury
4.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Five years after her first book, Kate Bradbury has a new, slightly bigger garden two miles away. Ka… read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
17. Rare Singles
By: Benjamin Myers
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more
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18. Ordinary Time
By: Cathy Rentzenbrink
4.18
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
'There are already three of us in this marriage. I'm not sure there is room for a fourth . . .'Ann … read more
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19. The Wood at Midwinter
By: Susanna Clarke
3.73
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more
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20. How to be a Bad Botanist
By: Simon Barnes
4.07
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
Can you tell a tomato from a grape? Lawn from an oak tree? Then congratulations - you are a botanis… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
21. British Woodland: Discover the Hidden World of Britain's Forests
By: Ray Mears
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Take a walk in the forest with this immersive guide to our life-giving discover which wood to use … read more
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22. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more
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23. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
24. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
By: Juliet Nicolson
3.44
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more
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25. Gabriel's Moon
By: William Boyd
4.33
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more
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26. The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness and the Space In Between
By: Richard Mabey
3.74
Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition
We regard gardens as our personal dominions, where we can create whatever worlds we desire. But the… read more
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- nonfiction
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27. Nature’s Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back
By: Sophie Yeo
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the natural world. Our activities have p… read more
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- nature
28. In All Weathers
By: Matt Gaw
4.09
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring exploration of the power and beauty of British weather in all its wild and stormy form… read more
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29. The Place of Tides
By: James Rebanks
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old w… read more
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- nature
30. The Brief Life of Flowers
By: Fiona Stafford
3.72
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
The beauty of flowers is well known, inspiring creative minds from Botticelli to Beatrix Potter. Bu… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
31. Killing Time
By: Alan Bennett
3.63
Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Killing Time is a wonderful surprise gift from Alan Bennett - a brand … read more
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