Fledgling
By: Hannah Bourne-Taylor
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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1. In a Good Light
By: Clare Chambers
4.36
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction … read more
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2. 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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3. The Peregrine
By: J.A. Baker
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
From autumn to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregr… read more
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4. The Gustav Sonata
By: Rose Tremain
4.41
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War see… read more
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5. The Essex Serpent
By: Sarah Perry
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scienti… read more
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6. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
7. Water
By: John Boyne
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more
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8. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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9. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
"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
10. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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11. 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
- nature
"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
12. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
13. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
14. The Coast Road
By: Alan Murrin
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more
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15. Whale
By: Cheon Myeong-Kwan
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
While "Whale" begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot… read more
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16. Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
By: Lucy Jones
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet na… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
17. 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
18. The Garnett Girls
By: Georgina Moore
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this brilliant debut novel full of heart and warmth, three very different sisters--and their fre… read more
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"It wasn't until the small daily gestures of affection disappeared in a marriage that you noticed them or knew how much you relied on them to break up the grind of work and childcare. They were the be…"-Georgina Moore, The Garnett Girls
19. 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
- memoir
- nature
20. The Memory of Animals
By: Claire Fuller
3.61
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, and Un… read more
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"Humans are useless at learning from their mistakes. We just have to keep making new plans."-Claire Fuller, The Memory of Animals
21. A Room Made of Leaves
By: Kate Grenville
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more
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"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
22. 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
23. All Among the Barley
By: Melissa Harrison
3.83
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Costa-shortlisted and Baileys-longlisted At Hawthorn Time comes a major new nove… read more
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- nature
24. The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary
By: Melissa Harrison
4.21
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
A nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, followi… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- memoir
- natural history
25. Shy Creatures
By: Clare Chambers
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more
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26. Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other
By: James Aldred
4.33
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
In early 2020, wildlife cameraman James Aldred was commissioned to film the lives of a family of Go… read more
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- nonfiction
- natural history
27. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
28. Raising Hare: A Memoir
By: Chloe Dalton
4.59
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
29. Fledgling
By: Hannah Bourne-Taylor
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Read the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to reshape her identity when all normality has fa… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- memoir
- natural history
