8 Best nature books like Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature by Patrick Barkham

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Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature

By: Patrick Barkham

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From climbing trees and making dens, to building sandcastles and pond-dipping, many of the activiti…

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1. If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman

By: Sharon Blackie

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

'Rising high up on the heather-covered moorlands, seeping through our bogs, flowing down our stream… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Menopause is not a medical condition, it is an earthquake, shaking us to our deepest foundations, wiping out the edifices we've so carefully constructed on what we once imagined to be the solid groun…"

-Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman

"If women remember that once upon a time we sand with the tongues of seals and flew with the wings of swans, that we forged our own paths through the dark forest while creating a community of its many…"

-Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman

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2. An Event in Autumn (Kurt Wallander, #9.5)

By: Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson

4.06

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

An Inspector Kurt Wallander short novel by the bestselling author Henning Mankell, available in Eng… read more

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3. River Cottage Every Day

By: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Hardcover

Putting food on the table for the family quickly and economically doesn't mean you have to compromi… read more

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4. The Owl Service

By: Alan Garner

3.84

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a s… read more

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5. There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom’s Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids

By: Linda Åkeson McGurk

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A perfect antidote to the hyper-vigilant, extra-electrified, standardized-tested, house-arrested, … read more

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6. The Lonely Londoners

By: Sam Selvon

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more

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7. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

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8. Found in a Bookshop

By: Stephanie Butland

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Dear Lost for Words, We are trying to stay at home . . . I am enclosing a cheque and I hope that… read more

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9. Daughters of Night

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

4.17

Format: 580 pages, Hardcover

From the brothels and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shephe… read more

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10. Death of a Bookseller

By: Alice Slater

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more

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11. The Hemlock Cure

By: Joanne Burn

3.73

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1665 and the women of Eyam keep many secrets. Isabel Frith, the village midwife, walks a d… read more

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12. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. A Tidy Ending

By: Joanna Cannon

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A delightfully sinister novel about a married woman living a nice, quiet suburban life—but things a… read more

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14. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

By: Bridget Collins

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more

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15. Little Wing

By: Freya North

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Little Wing is the powerful story of two families over three generations. In the 1960s, a pregna… read more

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16. 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
  • 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

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17. 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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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"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

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18. Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well

By: Tim Spector

4.27

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new scien… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. 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
  • nature
"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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20. The Instant

By: Amy Liptrot

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Wishing to leave the quiet isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"In the simplest terms, the internet is made from pulses of light."

-Amy Liptrot, The Instant

"Hearts and futures can turn on a single afternoon or an accepted invitation - but more often lead to nothing but themselves."

-Amy Liptrot, The Instant

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21. The Mother of All Christmases

By: Milly Johnson

4.30

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

THE MOST PERFECT CHRISTMAS FEEL-GOOD READ!'Every time you discover a new Milly book, it’s like find… read more

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22. Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

By: Qing Li

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Shinrin = Forest Yoku = Bathing Shinrin-Yoku or forest bathing is the practice of spending time … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Children who have fun in nature will become adults to care for and protect it. If we let our children play outside now, they will become the green architects of the future…"

-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

"In the end, it is our children’s relationship with the natural world that determines its future. If we let our children go into the forest, they will become adults who will protect it."

-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

"Czy zwróciłeś kiedyś uwagę, jak przyjemnie chodzi się boso po piasku, trawie albo ziemi?Nie bierze się to tylko z ulgi po zdjęciu sztywnych butów albo zrzuceniu wysokich obcasów. Kiedy dotykasz podło…"

-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

"Wszyscy znamy cudowny zapach lasu po ulewie. Kiedy długo nie pada, w glebie i na skałach gromadzą się olejki roślinne. To jeden ze sposobów roślin na przetrwanie okresów suszy. Podczas deszczu woda u…"

-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

Cover of Have A Little Faith: Life Lessons on Love, Death and How Lasagne Always Helps by Kate Bottley

23. Have A Little Faith: Life Lessons on Love, Death and How Lasagne Always Helps

By: Kate Bottley

4.24

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

'Thank God for Kate and this book' Dawn French 'Kate's natural warmth, wit and wisdom shines thro… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Just Ignore Him

By: Alan Davies

4.36

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Al… read more

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  • nonfiction
"This is the true inheritance tax of life. Behaviours and habits, ingrained, your own but not your own, a duty on your existence, a tariff to be levied on those who try to love you."

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

"Later, I imagined that the past is not behind us at all, but unseen beneath our feet. We are supported by it as we walk, sometimes balanced, sometimes not, and if we tried we could reach below to gra…"

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

"I don't see the point of leukaemia. Some diseases are using you as the host for a time and then they transfer to someone else, they survive that way, those pathogens, airborne or waterborne, jumping …"

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

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25. 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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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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26. The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

By: Roman Krznaric

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the first seeds sown thousands of years ago, to the construction of the cities we still inhabi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What might our descendants wish we had done better for them?"

-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

"We know the Roman Empire fell into oblivion but can scarcely imagine let alone admit that we might face a similar fate."

-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

"[H]ow can we design an evolutionary learning capability into our political, economic, and social systems so they are not crippled by rigidity in the face of changing circumstance or external shocks."

-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

"[W]e have colonized the future. We treat the future like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people, where we can freely dump ecological degradation, technological risk, and nuclear waste, and which…"

-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

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27. 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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28. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

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29. Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature

By: Patrick Barkham

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From climbing trees and making dens, to building sandcastles and pond-dipping, many of the activiti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • nature
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30. The Book of Beginnings

By: Sally Page

4.23

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more

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If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman

Sharon Blackie

4.29

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Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

Chris van Tulleken

4.43

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Raynor Winn

4.33

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Raynor Winn

3.98

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

Janice Hallett

3.95

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