One Midsummer's Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth
By: Mark Cocker
4.07
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
It takes a whole universe to make one small black birdThe story of all life on Earth, told through …
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1. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
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2. Age of Iron
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has … read more
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3. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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4. The Offing
By: Benjamin Myers
4.25
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more
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- nature
"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
5. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
6. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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7. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
8. Stop Them Dead (Roy Grace #19)
By: Peter James
4.35
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A ruthless crime. A race against time. When a young farmer confronts intruders in the middle of … read more
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9. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
10. The Seventh Son
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.60
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more
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11. Orwell's Roses
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"In the year 1936 a writer planted roses." So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on Geo… read more
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"He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there."-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"The contemporary world is full of things that look beautiful and are produced through hideous means. People died so that this mine may profit, that these shoes maybe produced as cheaply as possible, …"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"As withheld information, a lie is a sort of shield for the liar; as falsity it is a sword. It matters whether or not people believe the lies, but unbelievable lies wielded by those with power do thei…"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
12. One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
By: Brian Doyle
4.62
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
From a "born storyteller" ( Seattle Times ), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays inv… read more
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"Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, l…"-Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
"So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the end -- not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not c…"-Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
13. Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)
By: Peter F. Hamilton
4.13
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of linke… read more
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"Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause."-Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)
14. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
15. 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
16. Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm
By: Lee Schofield
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote easter… read more
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17. 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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18. Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation
By: Leon McCarron
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The river Tigris is in danger. It has been the lifeblood of ancient Mesopotamia and modern Iraq, bu… read more
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19. Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky
By: Sarah Gibson
3.98
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting mater… read more
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20. Be a Birder: Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2024
By: Hamza Yassin
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
'Birds have been with me my entire life - from the colourful weaver birds on the banks of the Nile … read more
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21. In Search of One Last Song: Britain’s disappearing birds and the people trying to save them
By: Patrick Galbraith
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Our wild places and wildlife are disappearing at a terrifying rate. This is a story about going in … read more
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22. Black Ops and Beaver Bombing: Adventures with Britain's Wild Mammals
By: Fiona Mathews
4.43
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
Countryfile's best nature and wildlife books for 2023 Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 'Eleg… read more
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23. 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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24. 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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25. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
By: Tim Birkhead
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey throug… read more
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26. Fire
By: John Boyne
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the … read more
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27. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
By: William Dalrymple
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence fr… read more
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28. One Midsummer's Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth
By: Mark Cocker
4.07
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
It takes a whole universe to make one small black birdThe story of all life on Earth, told through … read more
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29. The Starling: A Biography
By: Stephen Moss
4.02
Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition
Following his bestselling biographies of some of our favourite birds, including The Robin, The Wren… read more
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30. Sophie From Romania: A Year of Love and Hope with a Rescue Dog
By: Rory Cellan-Jones
4.49
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
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