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Books, Charts & Maps Biographies & Non-fiction
Biographies
Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest Expeditions
David Attenborough
416 pages. More details…
An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants
Dame Daphne Sheldrick
368 pages. More details…
An Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
Richard Dawkins
The Making of a Scientist - A Memoir. 320 pages. More details…
Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to British Birds
Bill Bailey
Informative, funny and insightful. Positively crackles with energy, knowledge and wit. 224 pages. More details…
A Guide to the Fields of Experince: The Private Diaries of a Passionate Birdwatcher
Frank Jarvis
152 pages. More details…
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science
Richard Dawkins
My Life in Science. 480 pages. More details…
The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood
John Lister-Kaye
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018.
John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife. This memoir is the story of a boy's awakening to the wonders of the natural world. 355 pages. More details…
Gone Wild: Stories from a Lifetime of Wildlife Travel
Malcolm Smith
Stories from a Lifetime of Wildlife Travel. 201 pages. More details…
The Green Road Into The Trees
Hugh Thomson
An Exploration of England. 310 pages. More details…
Journeys to the Other Side of the World: further adventures of a young naturalist
David Attenborough
432 pages. More details…
The Last Wilderness: A Journey into Silence
Neil Ansell
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018.
The experience of being in nature alone is here set within the context of a series of walks that Neil takes into the most remote parts of Britain, the rough bounds in the Scottish Highlands. He illustrates the impact of being alone as part of nature, rather than outside it. 320 pages. More details…
Looking for Adventure: A Childhood Dream. A Lost Land. The Journey of a Lifetime.
Steve Backshall
A Childhood Dream. A Lost Land. The Journey of a Lifetime. 352 pages. More details…
My House of Sky: The life and work of J A Baker
Hetty Saunders, Foreword by Robert MacFarlane
180 pages. More details…
My Wild Life: The Story of a Most Unlikely Animal Rescuer
Simon Cowell
272 pages. More details…
The Otters' Tale
Simon Cooper
Cooper brings these beloved animals to life in all their wondrous complexity, revealing the previously hidden secrets of their lives in this beautifully told tale of the otter. 288 pages. More details…
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species
Carlos Magdalena
More details…
Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies
Peter Marren
320 pages. More details…
Secrets of the Human Body
Chris van Tulleken, Xand van Tulleken & Andrew Cohen
256 pages. More details…
Waiting for the Albino Dunnock: How Birds Can Change Your Life
Rosamond Richardson
368 pages. More details…
Where the Wild Thyme Blew
Peter Marren
Growing up with Nature in the Fifties and Sixties 399 pages. More details…
Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?
Lev Parikian
200 Birds, 12 Months, 1 Lapsed Birdwatcher. 264 pages. More details…
The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist
Tim Birkhead
384 pages. More details…
A-Z of Birds: A Birder's Tales from Around the World
Bo Beolens
200 pages. More details…
All Things Reconsidered
Roger Tory Peterson
A collection of essays and photographs, carefully selected and edited by Bill Thompson III.
All Things Reconsidered reminds the reader of Roger Tory Peterson's unique perspective on birding and how he came to be recognized as one of the most important figures in bird watching. 354 pages.
Anoraks to Zitting Cisticola
Sean Dooley
By the author of Big Twitch. This is a humorous guide to the secret world of birdwatching. 265 pages. More details…
Arrivals and Rivals: a duel for the winning bird
Adrian M. Riley
New Edition. This book is all about determination, 'true grit' and the obsession to become the top year-lister in the British Isles. 165 pages. More details…
Bearded Tit
Rory McGrath
This is Rory's story of his life among birds, which is a thoroughly educational, occasionally lyrical and highly amusing romp through the hidden byways of birdwatching. 350 pages. More details…
Beguiled by Birds - Ian Wallace on British Birdwatching
DIM Wallace
Part history, part life story, this book describes the course of British birdwatching. It is interspersed with numerous (and sometimes controversial) anecdotes which enhance the appeal of Ian's engaging and entertaining text. 304 pages. More details…
Hardback £29.99 £26.99
The Big Year
Mark Obmascik
The rollicking chronicle of the 275,000-mile odyssey of three unlikely adventurers who take their bird-watching so seriously it nearly kills them. 268 pages. More details…
Biggest Twitch: around the world in 4000 birds
Alan Davies & Ruth Miller
The story of how Ruth Miller and Alan Davies decided to pack in their jobs, sell their house and take on the ultimate birder's challenge - to smash the world record for the number of species seen in one calendar year. 320 pages. More details…
Bill Oddie's Gripping Yarns
Bill Oddie
Read the uncut versions of Bill Oddie's tall tales and side-splitting yarns. 208 pages. More details…
Softback £8.99
Birders - Tales of a Tribe
Mark Cocker
The story of the birding community, its characters, rules and adventures - often hilariously funny. 230 pages. More details…
Birding on Borrowed Time
Phoebe Snetsinger
These posthumously published memoirs chronicle the birding adventures of the then world's all-time top lister (over 8400 species). The book is also a profoundly moving human document, as it details how the author's obsession with birds became a way of coping with terminal illness. 307 pages.
Birdman Abroad
Stuart Winter
As Fleet Street's only birding journalist, Stuart Winter has reported on every significant bird story and personality over the last three decades. 224 pages. More details…
Birds: Coping with an Obsession: One Man's Journey Through 50 Years of Birdwatching
Derek Moore
Renowned as one of birding's best story-tellers, Derek Moore takes readers on a nostalgic journey through the past five or six decades of birdwatching. 352 pages. More details…
Birds in a Cage
Derek Niemann
Four British birdwatchers in a POW camp, the unlikely beginnings of modern wildlife conservation. 302 pages. More details…
Birds Through Irish Eyes
Anthony McGeehan & Julian Wyllie
328 pages. More details…
Birdscapes
Jeremy Mynott
Birds in Our Imagination and Experience.
A thoroughly entertaining birder's bedside book, brimming with bird lore and anecdote. More details…
Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
Elizabeth J Rosenthal
An intimate biography of the father of American birdwatching. 437 pages. More details…
Blokes and Birds
Stephen Moss
A humorous look at 40 British and Irish birders and their exploits. 96 pages. More details…
A Brush with Nature
Richard Mabey
25 Years of Personal Reflections on Nature. The definitive collection of Richard Mabey's columns written especially for BBC Wildlife Magazine over 25 years. 244 pages. More details…
Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals
Patrick Barkham
A summer in search of our Emperors and Admirals. 304 pages. More details…
Charles Darwin's Life with Birds: His Complete Ornithology
Clifford B Frith
512 pages. More details…
Conservation: A Beginner's Guide
Paul Jepson & Richard Ladle
208 pages. More details…
Corvus: A Life with Birds
Ester Woolfson
The story of an accidental pet that came into a human life and turned it upside down. 337 pages. More details…
Crow Country
Mark Cocker
Mark Cocker's brilliant description of his journeys in search of crows and ravens, birds that obsessed him and changed his life for ever. 224 pages. More details…
Down the River
H E Bates
138 pages.
The Dragonfly Diaries
Ruary Mackenzie Dodds
The Unlikely Story of Europe's First Dragonfly Sanctuary. 304 pages. More details…
Eponym Dictionary of Birds
Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins & Michael Grayson
A comprehensive dictionary listing all the people whose names are commemorated in the English and scientific names of birds. 576 pages. More details…
Feathered river across the sky
Joel Greenberg
The Passenger Pigeon's flight to extinction. 289 pages. More details…
The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds
Daniel Lewis
346 pages. More details…
Fighting for Birds: 25 years in nature conservation
Mark Avery
A personal, philosophical and political history of 25 years of bird conservation. 325 pages. More details…
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
Chris Packham
Lessons in Life and Death. 320 pages. More details…
The Fly Trap
Fredrik Sjöberg
Fredrik Sjöberg's mesmerising Swedish best-seller on travel, the joy of collecting and discovering the hidden wonders of life. 288 pages. More details…
Golden Wings and other Stories about Birders and Birding
Pete Dunne
Collection of 41 of Dunne's articles and essays from various media, offering his perspective on birders and birding. 122 pages. More details…
Looking for the Goshawk
Conor Mark Jameson
Traces Conor Jameson's travels in search of the Goshawk. 368 pages. More details…
The Great Naturalists
Edited by Robert Huxley
The stories of nearly 40 great pioneers from all over Europe and America take us from Classical times to the end of the 19th century, when natural history changed from an amateur pursuit to the specialized profession we know today. 304 pages. More details…
The Great Soul of Siberia: In Search of the Elusive Siberian Tiger
Sooyong Park
286 pages. More details…
Guardian Spirit of the East Bank
Moss Taylor
More than just a biography of the acclaimed bird artist and field ornithologist Richard Richardson, as it is lavishly illustrated with examples of his watercolours and line drawings. 232 pages. More details…
My Year With Hares
Martin Hayward Smith
Stunning photography! 144 pages. More details…
Horace Alexander (1889 to 1989) Birds and Binoculars
J Duncan Wood
191 pages. More details…
How to be Wild
Simon Barnes
We are all wild. It's just that civilisation keeps getting in the way. In this book Simon Barnes takes us on a journey through a year, from one raucous spring to the next, helping us to realise the essential truth: that by enjoying the wild world our own lives become richer and more satisfying. 282 pages.
Nature of Japan
Mark Brazil
A great read. Mark Brazil's passion for his adopted home is palpable. 376 pages. More details…
Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds
Olivia Gentile
345 pages. More details…
Life on Air
David Attenborough
David Attenborough hardly needs any introduction; his voice has accompanied so many of the best natural history programs that have graced our televisions over several decades. Life On Air, his autobiography, tells the story of how he has managed to professionalise his schoolboy interests in such a remarkably successful way.
A lot has changed since his first television documentary, and in this updated edition of "Life on Air" Sir David tells us of his experiences of filming in the 21st century. 416 pages. More details…
Life on the Wing: A Bird Chronicle from the pages of The Times
Derwent May
An evocative and charming volume. 288 pages. More details…
Listening to a Continent Sing: Birdsong by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Donald E Kroodsma
224 pages. More details…
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field.
John Lewis-Stempel
'Meadowland' is a love song to our land, as well as a book of nature writing in the tradition of Jeffries, Mabey and Deakin. 288 pages. More details…
The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud
Brian Garfield
Entertaining and thoroughly researched read about a flamboyant figure. 354 pages. More details…
Minding my Peas and Cucumbers
Kay Sexton
Quirky tales of allotment life. 216 pages. More details…
My Garden and Other Animals
Mike Dilger
After the best part of forty years spent either living under his parents' roof, in the tropical rainforests of three continents, a vast array of student digs or most recently a one-bedroom flat, Mike Dilger has at last bought a house - and with it, a (potentially) glorious garden! 357 pages. More details…
My Natural History: The Animal Kingdom and How It Shaped Me
Simon Barnes
Simon Barnes, like a modern-day Gerald Durrell, weaves together the story of his life via the animals and the natural encounters that have shaped it. 249 pages. More details…
Nature Cure
Richard Mabey
Personal story of how Britain's foremost writer on natural history battled his way back from depression through his love of nature and the English countryside. 232 pages.
Nature's Conscience; The Life and Legacy of Derek Ratcliffe
Des Thompson
Derek Ratcliffe (1929-2005) was one of Britain's greatest naturalists. Nature's Conscience is written by friends and colleagues and explores the breadth, qualities, and legacy of Derek's work. 571 pages. More details…
Nature's Engraver
Jenny Uglow
The life of eighteenth century engraver Thomas Bewick. 480 pages. More details…
New Life Stories
David Attenborough
More Stories from his Acclaimed Radio 4 Series. A personal view of the natural world. 224 pages. More details…
Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter
Miriam Darlington
368 pages. More details…
The Profit of Birding
Bryan Bland
A light-hearted examination of the profit of birding from one of birding's greatest story-tellers. 240 pages. More details…
Rainbow Dust
Peter Marren
Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies. 308 pages. More details…
Raptor: A Journey Through Birds
James MacDonald Lockhart
384 pages. More details…
Red Canary
Tim Birkhead
The story of the first genetically engineered animal. 268 pages.
Redbreast: The Robin in Life and Literature
Andrew Lack
A celebration of the life of the robin, based on the classic Robin Redbreast by the author's father David Lack, published in 1950. The text is illustrated, including original cartoons by Euan Dunn. With a foreword by Richard Mabey. 294 pages.
Reluctant Twitcher
Richard Pope
"A quite truthful account of my big birding year" by Richard Pope. A serious yet humerous account of birds and birding and the art of chasing rarities. 216 pages.
The Ruffled Edge: Notes from a Nature Warden
Pete Howard
100 pages. More details…
Running Sky
Tim Dee
An extraordinary, inspiring book about a lifetime of observing birds. 272 pages.
Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names
James Jobling
A major ornithological reference, giving the derivation and meaning of all valid scientific bird names. Makes fascinating reading. 432 pages. More details…
Hardback £50.00 £44.99
Scilly Birding: Joining the Madding Crowd
Simon & Amanda Davey
A must read for any birder who has ever been to the Scillies or wants to go there. 162 pages. More details…
A Single Swallow
Horatio Clare
Combines the best of travel and nature writing as one man follows the migration of the swallow on the epic journey from South Africa to South Wales. 327 pages.
Tales of a Tabloid Twitcher
Stuart Winter
A window into the sometimes shady worlds of tabloid journalism and birdwatching, exploring the tales behind the very best scoops. Stuart relates tales of obsession, tragedy, celebrity, crime and scandal - just what is the most debauched use of a bird hide? 208 pages. More details…
Tales from Concrete Jungles
David Lindo
In preparation. David Lindo's articles are collected here for the first time; most of them are expanded with new material, but a few never before published are also featured. 224 pages. More details…
Tales of a Low-Rent Birder
P Dunne
A collection of 19 essays illustrated by David Sibley. 176 pages.
This Birding Life
Stephen Moss
Highly readable - a selection of extracts from the popular Birdwatch column in the Guardian. 216 pages.
To See Every Bird on Earth
Dan Koeppel
The absorbing story of Richard Koeppel's quest to see over 7,000 bird species. 278 pages. More details…
John Kirk Townsend - Collector of Audubon's Western Birds and Mammals
Barbara & Richard Mearns
This is the first in-depth biography of Townsend, an ornithologist from Philadelphia who crossed the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River in 1834 and made two visits to the Hawaiian Islands. He returned home with a great haul of bird and mammal specimens used by J.J. Audubon in his Birds of America and Viviparous Quadrupeds.
Barbara and Richard Mearns examine Townsend's Quaker upbringing, track him on his journey westwards, provide a modern zoological commentary on his discoveries, trace his troubled career and discuss his association with Audubon and the major contribution that Townsend made to his famous works.
The book is essential reading for those with an interest in early Western travels and the Oregon Trail, the wildlife of the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest, or the history of birding. 389 pages. More details…
Twitching through the swamp
Peter Marren & David Carstairs
"Droppings from the natural world." 192 pages. More details…
UK500: Birding in the Fast Lane
James Hanlon
An anecdotal, humorous and highly personal account of the author's quest to see 500 bird species in the UK before his 30th birthday. 16 colour plates of photos and illustrations. 127 pages. More details…
Was Beethoven a Birdwatcher?
David Turner
Did the Cetti's Warbler inspire the opening notes of the last movement of Beethoven's Second Symphony?
A quirky look at birds in history and culture. 288 pages. More details…
Wesley - The Story of a Remarkable Owl
Stacey O'Brien
When biologist Stacey O'Brien rescued a 4-day-old baby barn owl, little did she know the encounter would turn into an astonishing 19-year love affair. 230 pages.
While Flocks Last
Charlie Elder
Charlie Elder writes with humour as he travels the length and breadth of the British Isles to see our 40 key species in decline and meet the enthusiasts trying to save them. 329 pages. More details…
Whose Bird? Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds
Bo Beolens & Michael Watkins
Potted biographies of every individual who has given his or her name to a species of bird. 400 pages. More details…
Softback £17.99 £15.50Wildlife Detective: A Life Fighting Wildlife Crime
Alan Stewart
384 pages. More details…
Wildlife in Trust: A Hundred Years of Nature Conservation
Elliott & Thompson Limited
792 pages. More details…
A Wolf called Romeo
Nick Jans
The remarkable story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, Alaska. 288 pages.
Other non-fiction
10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
Alanna Collen
How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness. 341 pages. More details…
100 Under 100: The Race To Save The World's Rarest Living Things
Scott Leslie
304 pages. More details…
11 Explorations into Life on Earth: Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution
Helen Scales
224 pages. More details…
30-Second Biology: The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Theories of Life, Each Explained in Half a Minute
Nicholas Battey
The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Theories of Life, Each Explained in Half a Minute. 160 pages. More details…
Springwatch: The 2019 Almanac: A Nature Companion for the British Year
Michael Bright & Karen Farrington
384 pages. More details…
Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
Lee R Berger
272 pages. More details…
Arboreal: A Collection of New Woodland Writing
Adrian Cooper
333 pages. More details…
Arduino for Biologists
Ed Baker
304 pages. More details…
The Art of Flight
Fredrik Sjöberg
Accidental journeys with the bestselling author of The Fly Trap. 560 pages. More details…
As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Birds and Books
Alex Preston
208 pages. More details…
The Ascent of Birds: How Modern Science is Revealing their Story
John Reilly
352 pages. More details…
Atlas of Untamed Places
Chris Fitch
An Extraordinary Journey through our Wild World. 208 pages. More details…
Badgered to Death
Dominic Dyer, Foreword Chris Packham
The people and politics of the badger cull.
"The great service this book achieves is to pronounce the facts."
- Chris Packham
Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals
David Attenborough et al
272 pages. More details…
The Beauty of Numbers in Nature: Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World
Ian Stewart
Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World. 224 pages. More details…
Behave
Robert M Sapolsky
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. 790 pages. More details…
Behind More Binoculars: Interviews with Acclaimed Birdwatchers
Keith Betton & Mark Avery
228 pages. More details…
Biology in Transition
Martin Luck
The Life and Lectures of Arthur Milnes Marshall. 432 pages. More details…
Bird Brain: Over 2400 Questions to Test Your Bird Knowledge
British Birdwatching Fair,
More details…
Birds: A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Behaviour
Jonathan Elphick
272 pages. More details…
Bowland Beth: The Life of an English Hen Harrier
David Cobham
The story of the short, tragic life of Bowland Beth an English Hen Harrier which dramatically highlights the major issues in UK conservation. 320 pages. More details…
Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-Extinction
Helen Pilcher
The New Science of De-Extinction. 288 pages. More details…
A Shimmer of Hummingbirds: A Birder Murder Mystery
Steve Burrows
384 pages. More details…
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination
Richard Mabey
374 pages. More details…
Camera Trapping for Wildlife Research
Francesco Rovero and Fridolin Zimmermann
293 pages. More details…
A Cast of Falcons: A Birder Murder Mystery
Steve Burrows
384 pages. More details…
Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer
Peter P Marra & Chris Santella
216 pages. More details…
A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Collective Nouns
Matt Sewell
144 pages. More details…
Chasing the Ghost: My Search for all the Wild Flowers of Britain
Peter Marren
Join renowned naturalist Peter Marren on an exciting quest to see every species of wild plant native to Britain. 304 pages. More details…
Christmas Crackers: Ten Poems to Surprise and Delight
Published by Candlestick Press
24 pages. More details…
Christmas Garland: Ten Evergreen Poems
Published by Candlestick Press
20 pages. More details…
Climate Change and British Wildlife (British Wildlife Collection No. 6)
Trevor Beebee
Available from 18 October 2018. 384 pages. More details…
The Country Diaries: A Year in the British Countryside
Published by Canongate Books
384 pages. More details…
A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer Doudna & Samuel Sternberg
304 pages. More details…
Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists
Rebecca Stott
400 pages. More details…
Darwin's Hunch: Science, Race, and the Search for Human Origins
Christa Kuljian
368 pages. More details…
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Mde the Human Mind
Kevin N Laland
464 pages. More details…
A Celebration of David Attenborough: The Activity Book
Nathan Joyce
176 pages. More details…
Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were
Philip Lymbery
365 pages. More details…
Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene
Clive Hamilton
185 pages. More details…
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Steve Brusatte
The Untold Story of a Lost World. 404 pages. More details…
Does It Fart?
Dani Rabaiotti and Nick Caruso
The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence. 144 pages. More details…
Dynasties: The Rise and Fall of Animal Families
Stephen Moss
Available from 25 October 2018. 288 pages. More details…
Earth to Earth: A Natural History of Churchyards
Stephan Buczacki
160 pages. More details…
The Effective Ecologist
Neil Middleton
Succeed in the Office Environment. 206 pages. More details…
End Game: Tipping Point For Planet Earth
Anthony Barnovsky & Elizabeth Hadly
Tipping Point For Planet Earth. 264 pages. More details…
Epitaph for the Ash
Lisa Samson
In Search of Recovery and Renewal. 224 pages. More details…
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - And Us
Richard O Prum
A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences; what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful"; create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world. 428 pages. More details…
Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
Peter S Ungar
Available from 10 November 2018. 236 pages. More details…
The Princeton Guide to Evolution
Jonathan B Losos et al
888 pages. More details…
Explorer's Atlas
Piotr Wilkowiecki and Michal Gaszynski
For the incurably curious. 144 pages. More details…
The Extraordinary Beauty of Birds: Designs, Patterns and Details
Mark Peck, photographs by Deborah Samuel
288 pages. More details…
Eye of the Shoal
Helen Scales
A Fish-Watcher's Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything. 288 pages. More details…
Farmageddon in Pictures
Phillip Lymbery
The True Cost of Cheap Meat - in bite-sized pieces. 192 pages. More details…
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Philip Lymbery
The True Cost of Cheap Meat. 448 pages. More details…
Fartology: The Extraordinary Science behind the Humble Fart
Stefan Gates
Available from early November 2018. 144 pages. More details…
The Fight for beauty: Our Path to a Better Future
Fiona Reynolds
352 pages. More details…
Flora of Middle-Earth
Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd
Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium. 424 pages. More details…
Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain
Lucy Jones
320 pages. More details…
Geological Structures
Chris Pellant
An Introductory Field Guide. 192 pages. More details…
The Glorious Life of the Oak
John Lewis-Stempel
Available from 18 October 2018. 96 pages. More details…
Grassland Restoration and Management
David Blakesley and Peter Buckley
277 pages. More details…
Ground Work: Writings on People and Places
Edited by Tim Dee
288 pages. More details…
Guests of Summer: A House Martin Love Story
Theunis Piersma, Foreword by Ian Newton
Tells the story of the House Martins of a small Dutch village, and the historic and contemporary connectedness of lives, both of birds and people. 117 pages. More details…
The Handbook of Bird Families
Jonathan Elphick
Available from 28 February 2019. 416 pages. More details…
Herring Tales: How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History
Donald S Murray
272 pages. More details…
Hidden Histories: A Spotter's Guide to the British Landscape
Mary-Ann Ochota
288 pages. More details…
Hidden Nature: A Voyage of Discovery
Alys Fowler
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018.
This is about noticing the wild everywhere and what it means to see beauty where you least expect it. What happens when someone who has learned to observe her external world in such detail decides to examine her internal world with the same care? 240 pages. More details…
A High and Lonely Place: Sanctuary and Plight of the Cairngorms
Jim Crumley
164 pages. More details…
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuvai Noah Harari
A Brief History of Tomorrow. 513 pages. More details…
How Men Age
Richard G Bribiescas
What Evolution Reveals About Male Health and Mortality. 192 pages. More details…
How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear
Jess French, illustrated by Angela Keoghan
64 pages. More details…
The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
Simon Lewis & Mark A Maslin
256 pages. More details…
Improbable Destinies
Jonathan B Losos
How Predictable is Evolution? 368 pages. More details…
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
Alice Roberts
320 pages. More details…
Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction
Chris D Thomas
320 pages. More details…
Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago
Patrick Barkham
In this evocative and vividly observed book, Patrick Barkham explores some of the most beautiful landscapes in Britain as he travels to ever-smaller islands in search of their special magic. 368 pages. More details…
The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain
Christopher Somerville
384 pages. More details…
Lapwings, Loons & Lousy Jacks
Ray Reedman
The How and Why of Bird Names. 292 pages. More details…
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
John Brockman
384 pages. More details…
Linescapes
Hugh Warwick
Remapping and Reconnecting Britain's Fragmented Wildlife. 272 pages. More details…
The Little Book of Going Green
Harriet Dyer
Ways to Make the World a Better Place. 128 pages. More details…
The Lost Words
Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018.
From bestselling Landmarks author Robert MacFarlane and acclaimed artist & author Jackie Morris - a beautiful illustrated book for readers young and old 128 pages. More details…
Lundy, Rockall, Dogger, Fair Isle: A Celebration of the Islands Around Britain
Mathew Clayton & Anthony Atkinson
192 pages. More details…
The Making of the British Landscape: An Alternative History from the Ice Age to the Present
Nicholas Crane
592 pages. More details…
Marine Conservation
Bob Earll
People, Ideas and Action. 300 pages. More details…
The Art of Mindful Birdwatching: Reflections on Freedom & Being
Claire Thompson
144 pages. More details…
The Mirror of the Sea
Joseph Conrad, Introduction by Philip Marsden, Illustrated by John Everett
195 pages. More details…
Mountain: A Life on the Rocks
Steve Backshall
Climbing memoir by avid mountaineer and bestselling adventure writer Steve Backshall. 368 pages. More details…
Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather
Tessa Boase
Fashion, Fury and Feminism - Women's Fight for Change. 336 pages. More details…
Natural Wonders of the World
Published by Dorling Kindersley
440 pages. More details…
The Nature Fix
Florence Williams
Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative. 304 pages. More details…
No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics
Naomi Klein
288 pages. More details…
No. More. Plastic.
Martin Dorey
What You Can Do to Make a Difference in Just 2 Minutes. 160 pages. More details…
No Way But Gentlenesse
Richard Hines
A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life. 288 pages. More details…
Norfolk Villains: Rogues, Rascals and Reprobates
Neil Storey
144 pages. More details…
The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
Leif Bersweden
256 pages. More details…
Orchid Summer: In Search of the Wildest Flowers of the British Isles
Jon Dunn
A heady celebration of the beauty and history of the wild orchid species of the British Isles, embraced in one glorious and kaleidoscopic summer-long hunt. 368 pages. More details…
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Peter Godfrey-Smith
263 pages. More details…
Our Place: Can We Save British Nature Before it is Too Late?
Mark Cocker
352 pages. More details…
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
George Monbiot
224 pages. More details…
Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
John Grindrod
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018.
A captivating nature memoir telling the story of Britain's Green Belt, our national obsession with the countryside, and the author's childhood. 368 pages. More details…
The Pattern Under the Plough: Aspects of the Folk Life of East Anglia
George Ewart Evans
254 pages. More details…
A Prickly Affair: The Charm of the Hedgehog
Hugh Warwick
304 pages. More details…
Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
Tim Jackson
Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow. 336 pages. More details…
Ravenmaster: My Life with Ravens at The Tower of London
Christopher Skaife
256 pages. More details…
Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life
Brenda Maddox
Available from mid November 2018. 273 pages. More details…
Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists
Martin Wegmann, Benjamin Leutner and Stefan Dech
Using Open Source Software. 333 pages. More details…
Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change
Clive Hamilton
Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change. 286 pages. More details…
Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible
Simon Barnes
Available from early November 2018. 208 pages. More details…
Risingtidefallingstar
Philip Hoare
416 pages. More details…
The Salt Path
Raynor Winn
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018.
The uplifting true tale of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey of salvation across the windswept South West coastline. 288 pages. More details…
The Scientist's Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career
Stephen B Heard
How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career. 306 pages. More details…
Seeds of Science
Mark Lynas
Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs. 288 pages. More details…
The Sense of Wonder
Rachel Carson
A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children. 112 pages. More details…
The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why it Matters
Sean B Carroll
288 pages. More details…
Siberia's Sprite: A history of fascination and desire
Andrew Stoddart
177 pages. More details…
Songs of Love & War: The Dark Heart of Bird Behaviour
Dominic Couzens
256 pages. More details…
Reclaiming South Georgia
Tony Martin, photos and illustrations by Team Rat, foreward by HRH The Princess Royal
The Defeat of Furry Invaders on a Sub-Antarctic Island. 144 pages. More details…
Statistics for Ecologists Using R and Excel
Mark Gardener
Data Collection, Exploration, Analysis and Presentation. 404 pages. More details…
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Helen Czerski
382 pages. More details…
A Sweet, Wild Note: What We Hear When the Birds Sing
Richard Smyth
208 pages. More details…
A Tale of Trees: The Battle to Save Britain's Ancient Woodland
Derek Niemann
288 pages. More details…
Tales of a Ludicrous Bird Gardener
Bill Oddie
Bill's entertaining take on gardening for birds makes compelling reading. 240 pages. More details…
Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World
Alice Roberts
Alice Roberts uncovers the amazing deep history of ten familiar species with incredible wild pasts: dogs, apples and wheat; cattle; potatoes and chickens; rice, maize, and horses and, finally, humans. 360 pages. More details…
Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds
Cordelia Fine
256 pages. More details…
Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
464 pages. More details…
Tweet of the Day: A Year of Britain's Birds
Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss
448 pages. More details…
Birds in a Village: A Century On
W H Hudson & Brian Clews
132 pages. More details…
Walking Through Spring: An English Journey
Graham Hoyland
378 pages. More details…
We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's
Dick F Swaab (translated by Jane Hedley-Prôle)
417 pages. More details…
The Pocket Book of Weather: Entertaining and Remarkable Facts About Our Weather
Michael Bright
144 pages. More details…
Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies
Alexandra Harris
432 pages. More details…
What on Earth Evolved? ...In Brief: 100 Species That Changed the World
Christopher Lloyd
468 pages. More details…
When the Last Lion Roars: How the King of the Beasts Was Brought to the Brink
Sara Evans
320 pages. More details…
Where poppies blow
John Lewis-Stempel
The unique story of the British soldiers of the Great War and their relationship with the animals and plants around them. 400 pages. More details…
Where the Animals Go: Technology Meets Zoology in 50 Maps and Graphics
Oliver Uberti & James Cheshire
192 pages. More details…
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker
368 pages. More details…
The Wild Life: A Year of Living on Wild Food
John Lewis-Stempel
304 pages. More details…
Wild Signs and Star Paths
Tristan Gooley
The Keys to Our Lost Sixth Sense. 390 pages. More details…
Wilding
Isabella Tree
The Return of Nature to an English Farm. 384 pages. More details…
Wildlife and Wind Farms, Conflicts and Solutions, Volume 1
Martin Perrow
Onshore: Potential Effects. 289 pages. More details…
Wildlife and Wind Farms, Conflicts and Solutions, Volume 2
Martin Perrow
Onshore: Monitoring and Mitigation. 217 pages. More details…
Wildlife and Wind Farms, Conflicts and Solutions, Volume 3
Published by Pelagic Publishing
Offshore: Potential Effects. More details…
Wildlife and Wind Farms, Conflicts and Solutions, Volume 4
Published by Pelagic Publishing
Offshore: Monitoring and Mitigation. More details…
Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?: And 130 Other Science Questions Answered
John Murray
225 pages. More details…
Windblown: Landscape, Legacy and Loss - The Great Storm of 1987
Tamsin Treverton Jones
272 pages. More details…
Wonderland: A Year of Britain's Wildlife Day by Day
Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss
A life-affirming nature diary - with something amazing to see and experience on every day of the year. 496 pages. More details…
The World of the Whale
Smriti Prasadam-Halls, illustrated by Jonathan Woodward
48 pages. More details…
The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
Paul B Wignall
How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions. 215 pages. More details…
The Wren: A Biography
Stephen Moss
Available from 25 October 2018. 208 pages. More details…
You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
Nicholas Crane
Available from 18 October 2018. 160 pages. More details…
40 Years of Evolution
Peter R Grant & B Rosemary Grant
464 pages. More details…
Adventures Among Birds
WH Hudson & Robert MacFarlane
Part of a new series of classic British nature writing - Collins Nature Library - reissues of long-lost seminal works. The titles have been chosen by one of Britain's best known and highly-acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has also written new introductions that put these classics into a modern context. 272 pages. More details…
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago
John Van Whye
327 pages. More details…
QI book of Animal Ignorance
John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
Animal Quiz book. 224 pages. More details…
Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home
Chris Woodford
288 pages. More details…
The Attacking Ocean
Brian Fagan
The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels. 320 pages. More details…
Avian Invasions - The Ecology and Evolution of Exotic Birds
T Blackburn, J L Lockwood & P Cassey
This accessible text is aimed at professional avian biologists and ornithologists, invasion ecologists and graduate students of ecology, evolution and conservation. 305 pages. More details…
Badgerlands: The Twilight World of Britain's Most Enigmatic Animal
Patrick Barkham
Britain is the home of the badger - and yet many of us have never seen one. 389 pages. More details…
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
Caspar Henderson
427 pages. More details…
A Barrel of Monkeys: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals
Samuel Fanous & Thomas Bewick (Illustrator)
144 pages. More details…
Beside the Seaside: A Celebration of the Place We Like to Be
Jane Struthers
288 pages. More details…
Unplucked
Bill Oddie
Columns, blogs and musings. 256 pages.
Bird Coloration
Geoffrey Hill
Authoritative yet accessible and engaging text describing how and why birds have the colours they do. Illustrated with over 200 photographs and 100 detailed illustrations. 255 pages.
Bird Conservation
Williams, Pople, et al
575 pages. More details…
Bird Observatories of the British Isles
Mike Archer Ed.
Detailed coverage of the history, location, habitats and ornithological interest of each of the 20 observatories scattered around the British Isles, written by wardens and ringers from each location. 448 pages. More details…
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Birds & People
Mark Cocker, photographs by David Tipling
As important for its visual riches as it is for its awe-inspiring content. 704 pages. More details…
Birds and Climate Change
James W Pearce-Higgins & Rhys E. Green
Impacts and Conservation Response. 477 pages. More details…
Birds: Myth, Lore & Legend
Marianne Taylor & Rachel Warren-Chadd
304 pages.
Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed
Simon Barnes
An Introduction to Birdsong - with a free podcast. 288 pages. More details…
Guide To Hedgerows
Gill Crane & Carol Roberts & Mike Langman & Chris Shields
8 pages. More details…
Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians
Richard Kerridge
304 pages. More details…
A Conspiracy of Ravens: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Birds
Bill Oddie, Thomas Bewick (Illustrator)
144 pages. More details…
Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortalit
Jules Howard
A ground-breaking exploration pf death and its role in evolution. 288 pages. More details…
Do Birds Have Knees? All Your Bird Questions Answered
Stephen Moss
240 pages. More details…
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
Thor Hanson
336 pages. More details…
Feral
George Monbiot
Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life. 336 pages. More details…
A History of Life in 100 Fossils
Paul D Taylor & Aaron O'Dea
224 pages. More details…
The Gathering Tide: A Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay
Karen Lloyd
208 pages. More details…
Good Birders Don't Wear White
Tim Gallagher et al
Featuring a collection of 50 original essays from North America's top birders. Offers advice to birders of all levels with a generous helping of humour and entertainment. 268 pages.
Gossip from the Forest
The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales. More details…
Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
Bernie Krause
A fascinating exploration of nature's music from plants and animals to the wind and rain. 288 pages. More details…
The Great Extinctions: What Causes Them and How They Shape Life
Norman MacLeod
What is extinction? What causes it? Can it be prevented? Leading palaeontologist Norman MacLeod reveals how, contrary to popular conception, species extinction is as natural a process as species evolution. 208 pages. More details…
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Richard Dawkins
480 pages. More details…
Green Gone Wrong: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Eco-Capitalism
Heather Rogers
278 pages. More details…
Growing Barn Owls in my Garden
Paul Hackney
An enjoyable and informative story of the author's success in restoring this beautiful bird to areas of the country where numbers had declined. 160 pages. More details…
How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature
George Monbiot
342 pages. More details…
How to Be a Better Birder
Derek Lovitch
This book will take your birding skills to the next level. 202 pages. More details…
How to Clone a Mammoth
Beth Shapiro
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? 256 pages. More details…
How to Read Water: Clues, Signs & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
Tristan Gooley
392 pages. More details…
The Hunt for the Golden Mole
Richard Girling
All Creatures Great and Small, and Why they Matter. 312 pages. More details…
An Illustrated Country Year
Celia Lewis
Wildlife facts, foraging recipes and crafts, country folklore - uncovering nature's secrets month by month. 192 pages.
Inglorious: Conflict in the Uplands
Mark Avery (Foreword - Chris Packham)
Makes an extrememly strong case for banning driven grouse shooting. 304 pages. More details…
Jewel Hunter
Chris Gooddie
Insightful, compelling and funny, this is more than just a book about birds. It is the true story of an impossible dream: a quest to see all of the world's most elusive avian gems - the Pittas - in a single year. 424 pages. More details…
The Joy of Birdwatching
Alan Davies & Ruth Miller
A pocket-sized miscellany of birdwatching. 158 pages. More details…
Landmarks
Robert Macfarlane
A joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. 387 pages. More details…
Landskipping
Anna Pavord
Painters, Ploughmen and Places. 272 pages. More details…
Latin for Bird Lovers
Roger J Lederer & Carol Burr
An accessible, informative, and beautifully illustrated guide to the mysteries of ornithological Latin. More details…
A Less Green and Pleasant Land
Norman MacLean with Foreward by Chris Packham
Our Threatened Wildlife. 409 pages. More details…
Life of a Chalkstream
Simon Cooper
Chalkstreams are nearly exclusive to England, ranging from Dorset to Yorkshire and including the famous River Test in Hampshire. This is a lyrical and revealing voyage through the yearly cycle of this unique waterway. 320 pages. More details…
Life with Birds: A Story of Mutual Exploitation
Malcolm Smith
192 pages. More details…
Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year
Neil Hayward
416 pages. More details…
The Lost Fens: England's Greatest Ecological Disaster
Ian D Rotherham
The history of a landscape, of a region, and of its people, long since passed away. 215 pages. More details…
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Richard Dawkins & Dave McKean
272 pages. More details…
The Marsh Lions
Brian Jackman & Jonathan Scott
The true story of a pride of lions in Kenya's world-famous Masai Mara game reserve. 320 pages. More details…
A Message from Martha: The extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and its relevance today
Mark Avery
Imaginative and tremendously poignant. 272 pages. More details…
Natural Histories: 25 Extraordinary Species that have changed our World
Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss
444 pages. More details…
Natural Navigator
Tristan Gooley
Tristan Gooley blends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the rare and ancient art of finding your way using nature's own sign-posts, from the feel of a rock to the look of the moon. 296 pages. More details…
What Nature does for Britain
Tony Juniper
From the peat bogs and woodlands that help to secure our water supply, to the bees and soils that produce most of the food we eat, Britain is rich in 'natural capital'. 281 pages. More details…
What has Nature ever done for us?
Tony Juniper
Money doesn't grow on trees. Or does it? 324 pages. More details…
Never a Dull Moment: A Naturalist's View of British Wildlife
Ross Gardner
164 pages. More details…
A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries About the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth
Peter Ward & Joe Kirschvink
391 pages. More details…
Collecting the New Naturalists
Tim Bernhard & Tim Lowe
320 pages. More details…
Nightingales in November: A Year in the Lives of Twelve British Birds
Mike Dilger
256 pages. More details…
Bacteria
John Paul
Available from early December 2019. New Naturalist Series.
Books and Naturalists
David Allen
New Naturalist series 112. Explores the world of nature publishing through the course of history, from its very early days in the dawn of publishing, through various significant new discoveries and into the 21st Century. 320 pages. More details…
Falcons
Richard Sale
New Naturalist Series 132. 496 pages. More details…
Ponds, Pools and Puddles
Jeremy Biggs
Available from early January 2019. New Naturalist Library. In preparation.
Seaweeds
S Scott & C Maggs
Available from 18 December 2019. New Naturalist Library. In preparation. 320 pages.
Shallow Seas
Peter J Hayward
New Naturalist Series 131. 416 pages. More details…
Slugs and Snails
Robert Cameron
New Naturalist Library 133. 432 pages. More details…
Whales and Dolphins
Peter Evans
Available from 18 December 2019. New Naturalist Library. In preparation. c500 pages. More details…
On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature
Melanie Challenger
272 pages. More details…
The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Life with an Enchanting Tawny Owl
Martin Windrow
328 pages. More details…
Paradise Under Glass: The Education of an Indoor Gardener
Ruth Kassinger
347 pages.
Perfect Exposure: The Professional Guide to Capturing Perfect Digital Photographs
Michael Freeman
Unlock the secrets of taking properly exposed photographs using this in depth guide. Contains clear examples from real photo assignments and accompanies them with explanations. 192 pages.
The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn
Richard Mabey
A sextet of inspiring mediations exploring how our sensory responses influence our interactions with and attitudes towards nature. 110 pages.
Planet Earth, The Future
Fergus Beeley, Rosamund Kidman Cox & Jonathan Porritt
256 pages.
Rain: Four Walks in English Weather
Melissa Harrison
128 pages. More details…
Rare Treasures From the Library of the Natural History Museum
London Natural History Museum
224 pages. More details…
Red Sky at Night
Jane Struthers
The book of lost countryside wisdom.
An indispensable guide to everything we knew and loved before we went inside and turned on the TV. 289 pages.
Rings in the Shingle
Stuart Medland
Images and poems from the Norfolk Coast. 70 pages.
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
Philip Marsden
352 pages. More details…
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland
John Lewis-Stempel
304 pages. More details…
The Sacred Combe: A Search for Humanity's Heartland
Simon Barnes
256 pages. More details…
Samphire Coast
Robert Greenfield
Former British fashion designer Robert Greenfield, risks everything for a 'no going back' adventure that turns his comfy city life upside down as a dramatic new life beckons as a budding hotelier. 315 pages.
Saving a Million Species: Extinction Risk from Climate Change
Edited By: Lee Hannah and Thomas E Lovejoy
417 pages. More details…
Shifting Sands
Andy Stoddart
Blakeney Point and the Environmental Imagination. 186 pages. More details…
Shrewdunnit - The Nature Files
Conor Mark Jameson
An evocative journal that inspires and delights. 281 pages. More details…
Silent Spring Revisited
Conor Mark Jameson
Fifty years after the publication of the seminal Silent Spring, Conor Mark Jameson reflects on Rachel Carson's legacy and ask the question - are we still silencing the spring? 288 pages. More details…
Silt Road: The Story of a Lost River
Charles Rangeley-Wilson
288 pages. More details…
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting, the history of ideas and the work of geologists, botanists and marine biologists to tell the gripping stories of a dozen species. 336 pages. More details…
A Sky Full of Birds: In Search of Murders, Murmurations and Britain's Great Bird Gatherings
Matt Merritt
256 pages. More details…
Small-Headed Flycatcher. Seen Yesterday
Pete Dunne
A collection on thirty-two essays originally published in 'American Birds' and 'Birdwatcher's Digest' among others. 156 pages. More details…
Smart Swarm: Using Animal Behaviour to Organise Our World
Peter Miller
A fascinating lesson in how much we still have to learn from nature. 304 pages. More details…
A Sparrowhawk's Lament
David Cobham, Illustrated by Bruce Pearson
A unique and deeply personal insight into Britain's birds of prey. 256 pages. More details…
Spring: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons
Melissa Harrison
208 pages. More details…
The Story of the World in 100 Species
Christopher Lloyd
416 pages. More details…
Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
Jean Sprackland
288 pages. More details…
Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution
David Rothenberg
A revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. 320 pages. More details…
Survivors: Animals and Plants Time Left Behind
Richard Fortey
400 pages. More details…
Taming the Flood
Jeremy Purseglove
Rivers, Wetland and the Centuries-old Battle against Flooding. 384 pages. More details…
Ten Thousand Birds
Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny & Bob Montgomerie
In stock and available for immediate dispatch. 568 pages. More details…
This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein
A must-read on how the climate crisis must spur transformational political change. 566 pages. More details…
Turned out nice again
Richard Mabey
On living with the weather.
An all-time favourite author turning his attention to the weather - a national obsession and cultural icon. 160 pages. More details…
Tweet of the Day
Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss
A Year of Britain's Birds from the Acclaimed Radio 4 Series.
"This handsome book [is] perfect for dipping into . . . The beautiful prose and inspired illustrations by Carry Ackroyd make it a volume to treasure."
- BBC Countryfile.
336 pages. More details…
Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes
Bill McGuire
320 pages. More details…
Wild Hares and Hummingbirds
Steven Moss
The Natural History of an English Village. 305 pages. More details…
Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife
Stephen Moss
294 pages. More details…
Winging it: Birding for low-flyers
Andrew Fallan
Engaging tales that recount the highs and lows of being an avid birder in a world seemingly populated by experts and high-flyers. 146 pages.
Wonders of Life
Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen
An incredible journey of discovery by Professor Brian Cox to discover how a few fundamental laws give birth to the most complex, diverse force in the universe - life itself. 288 pages.
The Wood for the Trees: One Man's Long View of Nature
Richard Fortey
320 pages. More details…
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