A cultural history of twelve flowers - but this is not a flimsy loveliness but full of fascination and bite. Radioactivity, the slave trade, global warming, that old charmer Henry VIII, all ... read more
Boreal forests in Europa, Asia and North America account for a third of the world's trees and are essential for life on this planet. Less than 12% is protected... Large format, with stunning... read more
The abundance of the Cambrian explosion after half a billion years of an ice-bound world... the author is a geologist so quite at ease with unimaginable stretches of time.
The Hidden Folk are disappearing from the world; four of them - Moss, Sorrell, Burnet and Dormer - set out on a journey through autumn and winter to try to solve this troubling mystery. A ma... read more
Thorogood's version of 'up hill and down dale' takes him over cliffs and up volcanoes - all in the pursuit of pitcher plants, irises, orchids... Illustrated by the author.
This lovely anthology of the work of the writer, artist and wood engraver famous for The Farmer's Year and Four Hedges is beautifully produced, and includes some of her lesser-known writing ... read more
A gorgeous, illustrated study of the ways in which shells were circulated, depicted, collected and valued during a time of remarkable global change, by aristocrats and apothecaries, scholars... read more
The cleverness of crickets, crows, cockatoos: a fascinating study of the relationship between genes and behaviour. (The book is published in the US as some eagle-eyed readers will perceive).
The winner of this year's Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing is a meticulous, spirited diary observing the changing seasons from the perspective of an autistic teenager.
De Waal is a (if not the) leading primatologist and ethologist whose research into cooperation, conflict,etc leads him to fascinating parallels between primate and human behaviour in aspects... read more
Returning to her native Bulgaria, the acclaimed writer explores the valley of the Mesta and encounters its inhabitants and their traditions of plant-lore. Her previous books have been outsta... read more
A collection of essays by the late traveller and acute observer of nature: "The central project of my adult life as a writer is to know and love what we have been given, and to urge others t... read more
Rebanks inherited his grandfather's farm in the hills of the Lake District and became a sheep farmer, developing a fine flock of Herdwicks. The first part of that story he told, to great ac... read more
This is an astonishing book that will change our understanding of the world in dizzying ways. Wohlleben's 'wood-wide web' is but a part of the phantasmagoric abundance of fungal life that Sh... read more