Our use of birds is well-known - feathers for hats as well as for nests, birds deified, personified, caged, used for food and for hunting. Less well know is how birds interact with us. (Not ... read more
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
Jamie has just been named 'the Makar' - Scotland's poet laureate and you can see why in this essay collection: her quiet sentences are so polished they almost glisten. Whether she's windswep... read more
PP is an American academic and artist who has immersed herself in Wales, in particular the idea of hiraeth... a word for homesickness, or a deep longing for something left behind. Grappling ... 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
A ravishing book that revels in this beautiful white stuff: writer and Arctic traveller Nancy Campbell takes our minds and imaginations on a snowy journey to other cultures, other worlds - I... 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.
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 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
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 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
Follows Moss's previous books on the robin, the swallow and the wren. Eventually - presumably - he will reach that most magnificent if malodorous of birds - the gannet...