Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? 200 birds, 12 months, 1 lapsed birdwatcher
By: Lev Parikian
4.52
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lapsed and hopeless birdwatcher’s attempt to see 200 birds in a year As a 12-year-old, I was an …
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1. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
2. A Woman in the Polar Night
By: Christiane Ritter
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
For most of us, the Arctic conjures up images of freezing and forsaken solitude. Hence, Austrian pa… read more
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- biography memoir
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- memoir
- nature
3. The Year of the Hare
By: Arto Paasilinna
3.92
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
A journalist and a photographer set out on an assignment on lovely sunny evening. As they drive thr… read more
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- animals
4. The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
By: Mark Obmascik
3.47
Format: 185 pages,
For those who thought bird-watching was a sedate Sunday hobby, here comes the rollicking tale of th… read more
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- memoir
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- birds
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5. The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24; City Watch, #5)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That its finest practitioners are subtle, sophisticated in… read more
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6. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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7. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
Format: 759 pages, Paperback
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more
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"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
8. The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
By: Tim Hannigan
4.27
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Britain's westernmost and most mysteriou… read more
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- nature
9. A Winter Grave
By: Peter May
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
It is the year 2051. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the plane… read more
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10. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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11. 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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"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)
12. 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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- memoir
- animals
- natural history
- 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
13. Diary of a Young Naturalist
By: Dara McAnulty
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From sprin… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- memoir
- natural history
"Many people accuse me of “not looking autistic"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I have the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist, and bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world."-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"As I ran to join my family for the last stretch of the walk at Glendalough, leaving St Kevin and the blackbird behind, a solar glare draped over us, connected us to the land with invisible strings. A…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I'm surrounded by five or six fly agaric mushrooms. Like them, I have burst open. I feel more resilient, more powerful. [...] I can't just love the natural world. I have to raise my voice even louder…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
14. 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
- memoir
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"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
15. Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.03
Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition
Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times b… read more
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"I found that when people are nursing a grievance it’s a waste of time trying to explain the ubiquitous nature of coincidence in the universe. People always want things to happen for a reason."-Ben Aaronovitch, Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection
16. 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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17. Are We Having Fun Yet?
By: Lucy Mangan
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Meet Liz: all she wants is some peace and quiet so she can read a book with her cat Henry, love of … read more
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"I want cheese,’ says Kate, reaching for the board and knife. ‘Hardworking vaginas need dairy."-Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?
"I swear quietly and violently. Leaving my waffle feels like parting from a lover too soon. Our relationship has barely begun."-Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?
"She was one we really did think would outlive us all, preserved for ever by gin and evil. ‘Like herpes,’ Fiona once said. ‘There’s no shifting her."-Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?
"Au for an au pair!’ Richard – who dismisses Céline’s experiences as a run of simple bad luck – cries every time, labouring as he does under the profound misapprehension that the law of diminishing re…"-Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?
18. The Wild Silence
By: Raynor Winn
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more
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"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
19. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more
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"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
20. Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey through Britain and Ireland
By: Leif Bersweden
4.34
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
‘When was the last time you stopped and noticed a wild plant?’ An intriguing and timely explorat… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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"Our experience of nature is becoming more and more about what we see on our screens, and less about actually being outside and experiencing it for ourselves. Crouched on the fellside, nose to flower …"-Leif Bersweden, Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey through Britain and Ireland
21. 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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- 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
22. Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
By: Jonathan Coe
3.93
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid … read more
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"Com’è il morale? In generale"-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
"Lei insegna all’università, vero? E quindi conosce William Blake."-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
"C' erano poche cose altrettanto intime per lei che curiosare insiemeba qualcuno tra i libri"-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
"Frustrato, Doug tentò un’altra strada. “Ascolta, supponiamo che la maggioranza voti per la Brexit e noi..."-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
23. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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24. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
25. Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
By: Simon Clark
4.30
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining all known life on the planet and cre… read more
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- nature
26. On the Marsh: A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet
By: Simon Barnes
3.99
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
How the rewilding of eight acres of Norfolk marshland inspired a family and brought nature even clo… read more
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- natural history
27. The Song that Sings Us
By: Nicola Davies
3.99
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
When animals talk, it’s time humans listened: Harlon has been raised to protect her younger sibling… read more
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28. The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari
By: Simon Barnes
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Rewild Yourself comes a brilliant new book that reveals the natural jo… read more
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- animals
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- birds
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29. The Lark Ascending: The Music of the British Landscape
By: Richard King
3.84
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
ROUGH TRADE AND CAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTHThe Lark Ascending, Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'p… read more
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- nature
30. The Owl: A Biography (The Bird Biography Series Book 5)
By: Stephen Moss
4.32
Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition
'BEAUTIFULLY, A BOOK ABOUT BIRDS' The Sunday Times | 'ENGAGING AND EYE-OPENING' The Countryman Unco… read more
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- animals
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31. Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? 200 birds, 12 months, 1 lapsed birdwatcher
By: Lev Parikian
4.52
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lapsed and hopeless birdwatcher’s attempt to see 200 birds in a year As a 12-year-old, I was an … read more
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- biography memoir
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- birds
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