"We think about history coming down to us; but creation, generally, builds upwards, layer on layer...". JLS is a farmer as well as one of our foremost writers of nature, and here he takes hi... read more
Another short delightfulness from JLS, following his Secret Life of the Owl, The Glorious life of the Oak and others. He and these slim yearly productions are becoming an institution.
JLS's approach to sheep and shepherding is both practical and lyrical - he, the shepherd, sometimes lies down to sleep with his sheep. Interesting too are his ideas about what constitutes go... read more
Climate, exploration, Arctic peoples, trade, material culture and the present - wonders to be shown, d.v., at the British Museum from late May this year.
A collection of essays about both repair and despair in the face of the accelerating loss of biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Lloyd's research takes her from the Carpathians to Perthshire, ... 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
A hardback reissue of Mabey's ground-breaking work of 1973, in which he wrote about what have more recently become known as 'edgelands', the neglected nooks and corners of industrial or urba... read more
A hardback reprint of his award-winning biography of Gilbert White, the pioneering naturalist who lived at Selborne. One of a trio of books being published this autumn by Little Toller in ce... read more
A lovely hardback reissue of Mabey's book about beech trees, prompted by the great storm of 1987 when so many blew down. It's a wonderful stroll through the history of Fagus sylvatica, inclu... read more
H is for hawk-eyed: Helen MacDonald follows her sensational memoir with a collection of essays about the world around her.
NB Publication of this book has been delayed. Publishing sched... read more
A sumptuous volume on the so-called father of English geology, replete with Smith's own remarkable hand-coloured maps, stratigraphies, Sowerby's fossil illustrations, and photographs. Very l... read more
An American voice on the environmental disaster of post-war industrial agriculture, and the positive signs of recovery from poly-cultural farms and permaculture embraced by a new generation ... read more
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.
DA's 'Diary of a Young Naturalist' won last year's Wainright Prize; he is extraordinarily young too - now just 17. Here he invites young readers on a practical exploration of the world aroun... read more
The astonishing diversity of flora on St Helena is man-made but unintended: East India Company ships offloaded cargoes of precious plants to recuperate there before being transported onward.
An emergency to rival climate change: all of life on earth as we know it relies on insects, and their numbers are in free-fall. Unnerving and important reminder that global pollution and agr... read more
BM is the pre-eminent photographer of trees. This sequence of 50 luscious duotone prints emerged from a pilgrimage to Madagascar and South Africa as baobabs start to die because of global wa... read more