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
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.
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
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
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
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